Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 19
Into a dwelling it shall be a sin to admit thee; into a church if thou dost run, the church must be consecrated anew."
Who acts: dwelling, thou · What happens: dwell, be, admit, do, consecrate · To what, where: beast, sin, thee, church, run
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 (dwelling, thou), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sin | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sin | det |
| 3 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sin | csubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dwelling | obj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sin | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sin | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sin | det |
| 8 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 consecrated | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 admit | mark |
| 10 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sin | acl |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 admit | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 church | punct |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admit | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 dost | mark |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 dost | nsubj |
| 18 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 admit | advcl |
| 19 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dost | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sin | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 consecrated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 consecrated | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 consecrated | aux:pass |
| 25 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | anew | anew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 consecrated | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 consecrated | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 consecrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | beast | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location | |||||
| 2 | is | shall | dwelling | a sin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | thee | a church | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | run | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | consecrate | must · passive | the church | anew property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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