Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 149
The "hasty word" of a father or a mother will condemn even an innocent child to slavery among devils, and when it has once been uttered, it is irrevocable.
Who acts: hasty word, word · What happens: condemn, utter, be, word · To what, where: innocent child, word, father
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hasty word, word), 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 | 4 word | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 3 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 word | amod |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 condemn | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 father | det |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 mother | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mother | det |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 condemn | aux |
| 13 | condemn | condemn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 child | advmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 16 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 child | amod |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 condemn | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 slavery | case |
| 19 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 condemn | obl |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 devils | case |
| 21 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 condemn | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 irrevocable | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 irrevocable | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 uttered | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 uttered | aux |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 uttered | advmod |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 uttered | aux:pass |
| 29 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 irrevocable | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 uttered | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 irrevocable | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 irrevocable | cop |
| 33 | irrevocable | irrevocable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 condemn | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 condemn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | future | the hasty word of a father or a mother | a innocent child | to slavery; among devils | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | present · perfect · passive | word | once property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | word | irrevocable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word in a quote | a father or a mother | nom word «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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