Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 199
Page 291--sportman amended to sportsman--"... a sportsman finds in a forest ..."
Who acts: sportsman · What happens: amend, find · To what, where: sportman, Page, forest
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 (sportsman), 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 | 13 finds | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | 291 | 291 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 sportman | punct |
| 4 | sportman | sportman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sportman | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sportsman | case |
| 7 | sportsman | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amended | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sportsman | det |
| 12 | sportsman | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finds | nsubj |
| 13 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finds | obl |
| 17 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 13 finds | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | sportman not said here | to sportsman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present | a sportsman | Page and sportman | a forest | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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