Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 172
Page 213--plating amended to plaiting--"... sat a moujik plaiting a bast shoe."
Who acts: moujik · What happens: amend, plait, sit · To what, where: Page, moujik, bast shoe
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | compound |
| 2 | 213 | 213 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
| 4 | plating | plate | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 amended | aux:pass |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Page | acl |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 plaiting | mark |
| 7 | plaiting | plait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 amended | advcl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 plaiting | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 plaiting | punct |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moujik | det |
| 13 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obj |
| 14 | plaiting | plait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 moujik | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shoe | det |
| 16 | bast | bast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoe | compound |
| 17 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plaiting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | gerund · passive | Page not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | plait | gerund | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | past | a moujik | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moujik=Theme | |||||
| 4 | plait in a quote | gerund | a moujik not said here | a bast shoe | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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