Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 103
A certain Rishi passed many times ten thousand years in a religious ecstasy.
Who acts: certain Rishi · What happens: pass · To what, where: religious ecstasy
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 (certain Rishi), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Rishi | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rishi | amod |
| 3 | Rishi | Rishi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thousand | compound |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ecstasy | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ecstasy | det |
| 12 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ecstasy | amod |
| 13 | ecstasy | ecstasy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | a certain Rishi | a religious ecstasy | time; year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ecstasy=Location |
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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