Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Sparrow and the Bush, sentence 6
[14] _Shulyak_ means both _sparrow-hawk_ and _push_.
Who acts: 14, both · What happens: mean, hawk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Sparrow and the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (14, both), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 2 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shulyak | punct |
| 5 | Shulyak | Shulyak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 14 | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shulyak | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 hawk | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hawk | amod |
| 10 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hawk | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sparrow | punct |
| 12 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | ccomp |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 hawk | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 push | cc |
| 15 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 push | amod |
| 16 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hawk | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 hawk | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | 14 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hawk | both | tree rules |
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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