Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 33
Then God sent the holy Andrew, who struck with his mace--and all that village was swallowed up by the earth, and the place thereof became a swamp.
Who acts: God, holy Andrew, earth, place · What happens: send, strike, swallow up, become · To what, where: holy Andrew, village, swamp
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 (God, holy Andrew, earth, place), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Andrew | det |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Andrew | amod |
| 6 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Andrew | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mace | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 swallowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swallowed | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 village | det:predet |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 19 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swallowed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 became | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 became | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 became | nsubj |
| 28 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 29 became | advmod |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 swamp | det |
| 31 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 became | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | God | the holy Andrew | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent andrew=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | past | the holy Andrew | with God's mace | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swallow up | past · passive | the earth | all village | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the place | a swamp | thereof property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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