Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 117
"Why should I not weep, seeing the task that the serpent has given me is impossible?"
Who acts: serpent, seeing · What happens: not weep, see, give, be · To what, where: task, serpent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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 (serpent, seeing), 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 | _ | 6 weep | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 weep | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 weep | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 weep | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 weep | advmod |
| 6 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 impossible | csubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 task | det |
| 10 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 serpent | det |
| 13 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seeing | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 impossible | cop |
| 18 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weep | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 weep | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not weep in a quote | should | the serpent = serpent | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | gerund | the task | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer task=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the serpent | the serpent = serpent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | seeing | impossible property | 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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