Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 13
On his way he hears voices, as though of children, crying, "O Christ's brother, ask Christ for us--have we to suffer long?"
Who acts: beggar, we · What happens: hear, cry, ask, suffer · To what, where: voices, way, Christ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, we), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hears | nsubj |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hears | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 9 | though | though | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 voices | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hears | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brother | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 brother | punct |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 19 brother | discourse |
| 17 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Christ | case |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crying | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ask | punct |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | parataxis |
| 22 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | obl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 suffer | punct |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 suffer | aux |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 suffer | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 suffer | mark |
| 29 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ask | conj |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 suffer | advmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 suffer | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | beggar | voices and children | beggar's way | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | beggar not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | Christ | for us | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent christ=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | suffer in a quote | present | we | long property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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