Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 58
Lo, these four years we have not had news of him.
Who acts: four years · What happens: not have · To what, where: news
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four years), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 years | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 news | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · perfect | this four years | news of eagle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=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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