Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 1
There was an old man who lived near Lake Onega, and who supported himself and his wife by hunting.
Who acts: old man · What happens: be, live, support, hunt · To what, where: Lake, man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. 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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 Lake | case |
| 9 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 10 | Onega | Onega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lake | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 supported | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 supported | cc |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 supported | nsubj |
| 14 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 supported | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wife | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 himself | conj |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 hunting | mark |
| 20 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 supported | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a old man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a old man | Lake | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near lake=Location | ||||
| 3 | support | past | man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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