Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 133
So they returned to where the Lord awaited them, described what they had seen, and resumed their journey.
Who acts: Apostles, Lord · What happens: return, await, describe, see, resume, journey · To what, where: Apostles, journey
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apostles, Lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 awaited | mark |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 awaited | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lord | det |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 awaited | nsubj |
| 8 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 awaited | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 described | punct |
| 11 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 awaited | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 seen | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 described | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 resumed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 resumed | cc |
| 18 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resumed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Apostles = apostle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | await | past | the Lord | Apostles = apostle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | describe | past | the Lord not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Apostles = apostle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | resume | past | Apostles = apostle not said here | Apostles's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | journey | Apostles = apostle | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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