Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 15

[17] Posad, or posag, a bench covered with white cloth on which the bride and bridegroom sat down together.

Who acts: bride · What happens: cover, sit down · To what, where: bench, white cloth

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 17	punct
2	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 17	punct
4	Posad	Posad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 17	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 posag	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 posag	cc
7	posag	posag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 17	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bench	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bench	det
10	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 posag	appos
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bench	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cloth	case
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cloth	amod
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 covered	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sat	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bride	det
18	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bridegroom	cc
20	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bride	conj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cloth	acl:relcl
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 sat	advmod
23	together	together	ADV	_	21 sat	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 17	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a bench not said here				with white cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme
2	sit down	past	the bride and bridegroom			white cloth		down, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location

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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