Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 84

When the Jews were seeking for Christ in the garden, says a Kharkof legend, all the birds, except the sparrow, tried to draw them away from his hiding-place.

Who acts: Jews · What happens: seek, say, try, draw · To what, where: garden, Kharkof legend, legends · 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 (Jews), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 seeking	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Jews	det
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 seeking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seeking	aux
5	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 says	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Christ	case
7	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seeking	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seeking	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 legend	det
14	Kharkof	Kharkof	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 legend	compound
15	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 birds	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 birds	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 legend	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sparrow	punct
21	except	except	ADP	_	23 sparrow	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sparrow	det
23	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 birds	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tried	punct
25	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 legend	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 draw	mark
27	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tried	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 draw	obj
29	away	away	ADV	_	27 draw	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	34 place	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 place	nmod:poss
32	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 place	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 hiding	punct
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 away	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past · progressive	the Jews		the garden	for Christ	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for christ=Theme in garden=Location
2	say speech: assert	present		a Kharkof legend all birds and the sparrow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent legend=Topic
3	try	past					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive		legends = legend		away property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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