Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 86

Then the Lord cursed the sparrow, and forbade that men should eat of its flesh.

Who acts: Lord, men · What happens: curse, forbid, eat · To what, where: sparrow

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, men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cursed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lord	det
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cursed	nsubj
4	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sparrow	det
6	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cursed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forbade	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 forbade	cc
9	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cursed	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forbade	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 flesh	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 flesh	nmod:poss
16	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cursed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	the Lord	the sparrow	then		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Theme
2	forbid	past	the Lord not said here				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	eat	should	men			of sparrow's flesh	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of flesh=Source

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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