Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 54
And St. George distributed the bread among the wolves, and one loaf which remained over he gave to the poor brother; who afterwards found that it was of a miraculous nature, always renewing itself and so supplying its owner with an inexhaustible store of bread.
Who acts: George, one loaf, bread · What happens: distribute, remain, give, find, be, renew · To what, where: bread, poor brother, owner
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, one loaf, bread), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 distributed | cc |
| 2 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | nmod:desc |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 distributed | nsubj |
| 4 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bread | det |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distributed | obj |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 wolves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wolves | det |
| 9 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 distributed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loaf | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loaf | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 loaf | nummod |
| 13 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distributed | parataxis |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 remained | nsubj |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loaf | acl:relcl |
| 16 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 remained | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brother | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brother | amod |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 found | nsubj |
| 25 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 26 found | advmod |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loaf | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 nature | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 nature | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 nature | cop |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 nature | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 nature | det |
| 32 | miraculous | miraculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 nature | amod |
| 33 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 renewing | punct |
| 35 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 36 renewing | advmod |
| 36 | renewing | renew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 nature | appos |
| 37 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 renewing | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 supplying | cc |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 supplying | advmod |
| 40 | supplying | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 renewing | conj |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 owner | nmod:poss |
| 42 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 supplying | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 store | case |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 store | det |
| 45 | inexhaustible | inexhaustible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 store | amod |
| 46 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 supplying | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 bread | case |
| 48 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 store | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distribute | past | George St. | the bread | among the wolves | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bread=Theme among wolf=Recipient | |||
| 2 | remain | past | one loaf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | George | the poor brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | one loaf | afterwards property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | bread | of a miraculous nature | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | renew | gerund | bread | always property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | ||||
| 7 | supply | gerund | bread's owner | with a inexhaustible store of bread | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient with store=Theme |
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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