Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 83
Then he was wearied with her beseeching, and said to her, "My strength lies in this sword of mine, and in my shirt, and so long as I have this shirt on, nobody can touch me."
Who acts: strength, I, nobody · What happens: weary, say, lie, have on, touch · To what, where: Daniel, wife, sword, shirt, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (strength, I, nobody), 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 | 4 wearied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wearied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wearied | aux:pass |
| 4 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 beseeching | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beseeching | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beseeching | beseeching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wearied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wearied | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 strength | nmod:poss |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sword | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 sword | det |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mine | case |
| 22 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sword | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shirt | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shirt | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 shirt | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 27 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 long | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 long | cc |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 long | advmod |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 touch | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 have | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 touch | advcl |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 shirt | det |
| 36 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 have | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 have | punct |
| 39 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 touch | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 touch | aux |
| 41 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lies | advcl |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 touch | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wearied | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wearied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weary | past · passive | Daniel | then | with wife's beseeching | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | present | My strength | this sword of mine | in my shirt | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sword=Location | |||
| 4 | have on in a quote | present | I | this shirt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient | ||||
| 5 | touch in a quote | can | nobody | me | long property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-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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