Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 21
His mother had cursed him before he was born, but he grew up and married.
Who acts: couple · What happens: curse, bear, grow up, marry · To what, where: mother, couple
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 (couple), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cursed | aux |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cursed | obj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 born | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cursed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cursed | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grew | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 married | cc |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 grew | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past · perfect · passive | couple's mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | couple | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow up | past | couple | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | marry | participle | couple not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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