Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 50
In Little Russia the wolves have their own herdsman[448]--a being like unto a man, who is often seen in company with St. George.
Who acts: wolves · What happens: have, be, see · To what, where: own herdsman, Little Russia, man, company
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 (wolves), 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 Russia | case |
| 2 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Russia | amod |
| 3 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolves | det |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 herdsman | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 herdsman | amod |
| 9 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 448 | punct |
| 11 | 448 | 448 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 herdsman | appos |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 448 | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 man | cop |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 herdsman | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 seen | advmod |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 company | case |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 George | case |
| 28 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 George | nmod:desc |
| 29 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 company | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the wolves | wolves's own herdsman | Little Russia | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herdsman=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | like a man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | present · passive | a man | company with George St. | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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