Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 136
In the parish of St. Nicholas there lived a Pope.
What happens: live · To what, where: Pope, parish
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 parish | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parish | det |
| 3 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nicholas | case |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 parish | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Pope | det |
| 10 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Pope | the parish of Nicholas St.; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pope=Location |
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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