Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 16
So Adam and Eve were turned out of Paradise, and the Lord said to the dog:
Who acts: Lord · What happens: turn out, say · To what, where: Adam, Paradise, dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 2 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Eve | cc |
| 4 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Adam | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | aux:pass |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 Paradise | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Paradise | case |
| 9 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lord | det |
| 13 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past · passive | Adam and Eve | Paradise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Lord | the dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient |
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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