Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 47
The old man said to the Pope, "We'll bury this money in the ground, and go and make another cure."
Who acts: old man, We · What happens: say, bury, go, make · To what, where: Pope, money, ground, cure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, We), 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 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Pope | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pope | det |
| 7 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bury | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bury | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bury | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bury | aux |
| 12 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 money | det |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bury | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bury | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | conj |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 cure | det |
| 24 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | the Pope | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pope=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bury in a quote | future | We | this money | the ground | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | another cure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cure=Product |
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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