Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 106
But to thee, Nicholas, because thou didst assist the moujik to set free his cart, shall men twice every year offer up thanksgiving."
Who acts: thee, men · What happens: do, assist, set, offer up · To what, where: moujik, free cart, thanksgiving
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 (thee, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 didst | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 thee | case |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 didst | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nicholas | punct |
| 5 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thee | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 didst | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 didst | mark |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 didst | nsubj |
| 9 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 didst | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moujik | det |
| 12 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 assist | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 set | mark |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 moujik | acl |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cart | amod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 men | punct |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 men | aux |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 offer | nsubj |
| 21 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 offer | advmod |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 offer | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 assist | parataxis |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 offer | compound:prt |
| 26 | thanksgiving | thanksgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 offer | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 assist | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 didst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | thee | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | assist | infinitive | thee not said here | the moujik | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | thee not said here | Moujik's free cart | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cart=Result | ||||
| 4 | offer up | infinitive | men | thanksgiving | year | twice property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Theme |
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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