Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 101
If the Lord had left me without kith and kin, I should not complain; but strange indeed is the woe that has befallen me!
Who acts: Lord, I, woe · What happens: leave, not complain, be, befall · To what, where: me, woe
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, I, woe), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lord | det |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 complain | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 left | iobj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 kith | case |
| 8 | kith | kith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kin | cc |
| 10 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kith | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 complain | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 complain | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 complain | advmod |
| 15 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 woe | csubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 strange | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 strange | cc |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 complain | parataxis |
| 19 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 complain | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 woe | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woe | det |
| 22 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 befallen | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 befallen | aux |
| 25 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 woe | acl:relcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 befallen | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 woe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the Lord | me | without kith and kin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | not complain speech: other | should | I | indeed property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the woe | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | befall | present · perfect | the woe | me | 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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