Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 53
On his day the peasants everywhere expect thunder and rain, and in some places they set out rye and oats on their gates, and ask their clergy to laud the name of Ilya, that he may bless their cornfields with plenteousness.
Who acts: peasants, Ilya · What happens: expect, set out, ask, laud, bless, name · To what, where: thunder, rye, places, clergy, name, cornfields
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 (peasants, Ilya), 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 day | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 day | nmod:poss |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expect | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 peasants | det |
| 5 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 expect | nsubj |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 expect | advmod |
| 7 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expect | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rain | cc |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thunder | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 places | det |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 set | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 expect | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 oats | cc |
| 21 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rye | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 gates | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 gates | nmod:poss |
| 24 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 set | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ask | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ask | cc |
| 27 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 expect | parataxis |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 clergy | nmod:poss |
| 29 | clergy | clergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ask | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 laud | mark |
| 31 | laud | laud | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ask | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 name | det |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laud | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Ilya | case |
| 35 | Ilya | Ilya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 name | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bless | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 bless | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 bless | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 bless | aux |
| 40 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ask | conj |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 cornfields | nmod:poss |
| 42 | cornfields | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bless | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 plenteousness | case |
| 44 | plenteousness | plenteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bless | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | the peasants | thunder and rain | day | everywhere property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme | ||
| 2 | set out | past | peasants = peasant | rye and oats | some places | on peasants's gates | tree rules | ||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | peasants's clergy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent clergy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | laud not said to happen | to-infinitive | the name of Ilya | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bless | may | Ilya | peasants's cornfields | with plenteousness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornfield=Theme | |||
| 6 | name | Ilya | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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