Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 40
One day this prince said to his sons, "Let us go down to the seashore and listen to the songs of the sea-folk!"
Who acts: prince, us, sea folk · What happens: say, let, go down, listen, sing · To what, where: sons, us · 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 (prince, us, sea folk), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sons | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 11 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Let | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 seashore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seashore | det |
| 17 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 listen | cc |
| 19 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Let | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 songs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 songs | det |
| 22 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 listen | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 folk | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 folk | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 folk | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 sea | punct |
| 27 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 songs | nmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | this prince | Prince's sons | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go down in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | to the seashore; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | infinitive | to the songs of the sea folk | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sing in a quote | the sea folk | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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