Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 38
In some parts of Russia, when the cattle go out for the first time to the spring pastures, a pie, made in the form of a sheep, is cut up by the chief herdsman, and the fragments are preserved as a remedy against the diseases to which sheep are liable.
Who acts: cattle, chief herdsman, sheep · What happens: go out, make, cut up, preserve, be, form · To what, where: parts, spring pastures, form, fragments, sheep
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 (cattle, chief herdsman, sheep), 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 parts | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 parts | det |
| 3 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Russia | case |
| 5 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 parts | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 go | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cattle | det |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 pastures | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pastures | det |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pastures | compound |
| 19 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 time | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pie | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pie | det |
| 22 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pastures | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 pastures | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 form | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 form | det |
| 27 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sheep | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sheep | det |
| 30 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 form | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cut | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 cut | aux:pass |
| 33 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 go | parataxis |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 cut | compound:prt |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 herdsman | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 herdsman | det |
| 37 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 herdsman | amod |
| 38 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cut | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 preserved | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 preserved | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 fragments | det |
| 42 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 preserved | aux:pass |
| 44 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 cut | conj |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 remedy | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 remedy | det |
| 47 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 preserved | obl |
| 48 | against | against | ADP | _ | 50 diseases | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 diseases | det |
| 50 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 remedy | nmod |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 which | case |
| 52 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 liable | obl |
| 53 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 liable | nsubj |
| 54 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 liable | cop |
| 55 | liable | liable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 diseases | acl:relcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | the cattle | some parts of Russia | time | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | make | participle | the spring pastures and a pie not said here | the form of a sheep | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | cut up | present · passive | the chief herdsman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | preserve | present · passive | the fragments | as a remedy against the diseases | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | is | present | sheep | to the diseases; liable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | form | a sheep | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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