Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 69
Then Daniel waved his sword and smote, and only those whom his blows did not reach escaped alive.
Who acts: Daniel, blows · What happens: wave, not reach, escape, blow · To what, where: sword
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daniel, blows), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 waved | advmod |
| 2 | Daniel | Daniel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | nsubj |
| 3 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 smote | cc |
| 7 | smote | smote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whom | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whom | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 those | advmod |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 whom | nsubj |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 waved | obl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 blows | nmod:poss |
| 14 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reach | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reach | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 reach | advmod |
| 17 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 18 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 reach | xcomp |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 escaped | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | Daniel | Daniel's sword and smote | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | |||
| 2 | not reach | past · do-support | Daniel's blows | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | escape | participle | Daniel's blows not said here | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blow | Daniel | nom blow «act intransitive»: 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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