Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 91

A clerk cannot be fashioned out of an old man on the point of death!"

Who acts: clerk · What happens: not be, point · To what, where: death

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 (clerk), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fashioned	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fashioned	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fashioned	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fashioned	cop
6	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 man	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fashioned	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 point	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 point	det
14	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 point	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 fashioned	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fashioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	a clerk					out a old man on the point of death; fashioned property	tree rules
2	point			death					nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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