Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 41
We have a dog here called Vazhko,[19] who can hear a wolf nine miles off."
Who acts: We, dog · What happens: have, call, hear · To what, where: dog, wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, dog), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dog | acl |
| 7 | Vazhko | Vazhko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 19 | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 19 | punct |
| 10 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 dog | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 19 | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hear | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hear | aux |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dog | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wolf | det |
| 16 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hear | obj |
| 17 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 off | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | off | off | ADV | _ | 14 hear | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | a dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a dog not said here | here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | can | a dog | a wolf | off property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus |
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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