Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 96
Therefore it is that to kill a swallow is a sin, and that its nest brings good luck to a house.
Who acts: posterity, swallow, nest · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: sin, good luck, house
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 (posterity, swallow, nest), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 kill | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swallow | det |
| 8 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sin | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sin | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sin | det |
| 11 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brings | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brings | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 brings | mark |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nest | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brings | nsubj |
| 17 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | conj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 luck | amod |
| 19 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brings | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brings | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | posterity | kill, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a swallow | a sin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | posterity's nest | good luck | a house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent luck=Theme to house=Destination |
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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