Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 77

There is a bird, probably the peewit, which during dry weather may be seen always on the wing, and piteously crying _Peet, Peet_,[432] as if begging for water.

Who acts: bird · What happens: be, see, cry, beg · To what, where: peewit, wing, Peet

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 (bird), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 peewit	punct
6	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 peewit	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peewit	det
8	peewit	peewit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bird	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seen	obj
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 weather	case
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weather	amod
13	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 which	nmod
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 seen	aux:pass
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 peewit	acl:relcl
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 seen	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 wing	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wing	det
20	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crying	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 crying	cc
23	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	24 crying	advmod
24	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 is	conj
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Peet	punct
26	Peet	Peet	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 crying	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Peet	punct
28	Peet	Peet	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Peet	conj
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Peet	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 432	punct
31	[	[	PUNCT	_	32 432	punct
32	432	432	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 Peet	list
33	]	]	PUNCT	_	32 432	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 begging	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 begging	mark
36	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 crying	advcl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 water	case
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 begging	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a bird		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	may · passive		the peewit	the wing	during dry weather	always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: which=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	gerund	a bird not said here	Peet and Peet			piteously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peet=Topic
4	beg speech: request	gerund	a bird not said here				for water	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for water=Topic

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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