Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 47
So the Jews flattered him with devilish cunning, and almost forced the wine-jars to his lips.
Who acts: Jews · What happens: flatter, force · To what, where: soul, wine jars
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jews), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 flattered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Jews | det |
| 3 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 flattered | nsubj |
| 4 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flattered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cunning | case |
| 7 | devilish | devilish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cunning | amod |
| 8 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flattered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forced | cc |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 forced | advmod |
| 12 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flattered | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jars | det |
| 14 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jars | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wine | punct |
| 16 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forced | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lips | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lips | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter | past | the Jews | soul | with devilish cunning | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | force | past | the Jews not said here | the wine jars | to soul's lips; almost property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/3/47/