Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 82
From that time it has never ceased its wailing cry of "Drink, Drink," _Peet, Peet_.
Who acts: wailing cry, earth · What happens: not cease, wail, drink, cry · To what, where: earth
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 (wailing cry, earth), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ceased | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 ceased | advmod |
| 7 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cry | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wailing | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cry | amod |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 Drink | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Drink | punct |
| 13 | Drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cry | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Drink | punct |
| 15 | Drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Drink | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Peet | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Peet | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Peet | punct |
| 19 | Peet | Peet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Peet | punct |
| 21 | Peet | Peet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Peet | flat |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Peet | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cease | present · perfect · passive | earth | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wail | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | earth's wailing cry not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | infinitive | earth's wailing cry not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cry | earth | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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