Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 76
"Here'll be a good harvest, a right good harvest!" says Nicholas, "and the Moujik, too, is a good fellow sure enough, both honest and pious: one who remembers God and thinks about the Saints!
Who acts: right good harvest, one · What happens: be, say, remember, think · To what, where: good harvest, God · 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 (right good harvest, one), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 harvest | advmod |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 harvest | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 harvest | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 harvest | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 harvest | amod |
| 7 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 harvest | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 harvest | det |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 harvest | amod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 harvest | amod |
| 12 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 harvest | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 harvest | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nicholas | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nicholas | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Moujik | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Moujik | det |
| 21 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Nicholas | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 too | punct |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 says | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sure | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sure | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fellow | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fellow | amod |
| 28 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sure | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 says | ccomp |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 29 sure | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 honest | punct |
| 32 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 33 honest | cc:preconj |
| 33 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sure | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pious | cc |
| 35 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 honest | conj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 remembers | punct |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 remembers | nsubj |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 remembers | nsubj |
| 39 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | conj |
| 40 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 remembers | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 thinks | cc |
| 42 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 remembers | conj |
| 43 | about | about | ADP | _ | 45 Saints | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Saints | det |
| 45 | Saints | Saint | PROPN | Number=Plur | 42 thinks | obl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | a good harvest | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | a right good harvest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a good fellow obl:unmarked; enough, sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remember in a quote | present | one | God | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | present | one not said here | about the Saints | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about saint=Topic |
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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