Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 105
Because thou didst not assist the moujik, therefore shall men honor thee by thanksgiving once only every four years.
Who acts: thou, men · What happens: not assist, honor, thanksgiv · To what, where: moujik, thee
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 assist | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 assist | nsubj |
| 3 | didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 assist | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 assist | advmod |
| 5 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 honor | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moujik | det |
| 7 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assist | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 assist | punct |
| 9 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 12 honor | advmod |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 honor | aux |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 honor | nsubj |
| 12 | honor | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 honor | obj |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 thanksgiving | mark |
| 15 | thanksgiving | thanksgiv | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 honor | advcl |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 thanksgiving | advmod |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 years | advmod |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 years | det |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thanksgiving | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 honor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not assist | past · do-support | thou | the moujik | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | honor | shall | men | thee | therefore property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 3 | thanksgiv | gerund | men not said here | year | once property | tree rules |
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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