Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 26

"May the Lord judge my mother, in that she cursed me while a babe unborn!"

Who acts: May, mother · What happens: judge, curse · To what, where: mother, merchant

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 (May, mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 judge	punct
2	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 judge	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lord	det
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 judge	nsubj
5	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judge	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cursed	punct
9	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 cursed	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 in	fixed
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cursed	nsubj
12	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 judge	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cursed	obj
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 unborn	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 babe	det
16	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unborn	obl:unmarked
17	unborn	unborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cursed	advcl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 judge	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 judge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge in a quote	infinitive	May	my mother					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent mother=Value
2	curse in a quote	past	mother	the merchant = merchant					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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