Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 35
It's always one's duty to accommodate a traveller, they won't interfere with us."
Who acts: room, travellers · What happens: be, accommodate, not interfere · To what, where: duty, traveller
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, travellers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 duty | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 duty | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 duty | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 duty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 one | case |
| 6 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 accommodate | mark |
| 8 | accommodate | accommodate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 duty | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 traveller | det |
| 10 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accommodate | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 interfere | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 interfere | nsubj |
| 13 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 interfere | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 interfere | advmod |
| 15 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 duty | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 interfere | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 interfere | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 interfere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | room | one's duty | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accommodate | to-infinitive | a traveller | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not interfere | future | travellers = traveller | with us | tree rules |
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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