Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 53
These two beings were St. George and the Lisun.
Who acts: two beings · What happens: be · To what, where: George
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 (two beings), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 beings | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 beings | nummod |
| 3 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 George | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 George | cop |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 George | nmod:desc |
| 6 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Lisun | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lisun | det |
| 9 | Lisun | Lisun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 George | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 George | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this two beings | George and the Lisun | St. nmod:desc | tree rules |
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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