Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 77
Then he waved his sword, and whomsoever he struck fell to the ground, and he clapped them all in prison.
Who acts: Daniel, whomsoever · What happens: wave, strike, fall, clap · To what, where: sword, whomsoever, gloves
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, whomsoever), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 8 | whomsoever | whomsoever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 whomsoever | acl:relcl |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clapped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clapped | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 clapped | nsubj |
| 18 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 clapped | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 prison | case |
| 22 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clapped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | |||
| 2 | strike | past | Daniel | whomsoever not said here | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whomsoever=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | whomsoever | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 4 | clap | past | Daniel | gloves = glove | in prison | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in prison=Theme |
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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