Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 18
He shouted with an heroic voice, and whistled with an heroic whistle, till the whole sea was troubled by a storm.
Who acts: Ivan, storm · What happens: shout, whistle, trouble · To what, where: whole sea
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, storm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:1878): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 5 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shouted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whistled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whistled | cc |
| 9 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouted | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 whistle | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 whistle | det |
| 12 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whistle | amod |
| 13 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whistled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 troubled | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 troubled | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 troubled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 troubled | aux:pass |
| 20 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 whistled | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 storm | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 storm | det |
| 23 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 troubled | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Ivan | with a heroic voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | whistle | past | Ivan not said here | with a heroic whistle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with whistle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trouble | past · passive | a storm | the whole sea | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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