Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 173
Page 214--alloting amended to allotting--"... when God was allotting their shares ..."
Who acts: God, women · What happens: amend, allot, share · To what, where: Page alloting, shares
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 (God, women), 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 | 4 alloting | compound |
| 2 | 214 | 214 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | alloting | alloting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 alloting | acl |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 allotting | mark |
| 7 | allotting | allot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 amended | advcl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 allotting | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 allotting | punct |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 14 allotting | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 allotting | advmod |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 allotting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 allotting | aux |
| 14 | allotting | allot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 allotting | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shares | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 allotting | obj |
| 17 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 4 alloting | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 alloting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | Page alloting not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | allot | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | allot in a quote | past · progressive | God | women's shares | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 4 | share in a quote | women = woman | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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