Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 47
The human victim whom St. George has doomed to be thus destroyed nothing can save.
Who acts: George, human victim · What happens: doom, destroy, save · To what, where: human victim, nothing
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 (George, human victim), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 victim | det |
| 2 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 victim | amod |
| 3 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 save | nsubj |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 doomed | obl |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 George | nmod:desc |
| 6 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 doomed | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 doomed | aux |
| 8 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 victim | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 destroyed | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 destroyed | advmod |
| 12 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 doomed | advcl |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 destroyed | obj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 save | aux |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | present · perfect | George St. | the human victim | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive · passive | George St. not said here | nothing | thus property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: nothing=Patient | |||
| 3 | save | can | the human victim | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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