Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 12
Yet, perchance, God and St Michael will be my sureties," and he pointed at the ikon in the corner.
Who acts: perchance, sureties · What happens: be, point · To what, where: sureties, ikon
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perchance, sureties), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 sureties | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 perchance | punct |
| 3 | perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sureties | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 perchance | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Michael | cc |
| 7 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 God | conj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sureties | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sureties | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sureties | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sureties | surety | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pointed | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sureties | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sureties | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pointed | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pointed | nsubj |
| 17 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 ikon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ikon | det |
| 20 | ikon | ikon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pointed | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 corner | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 corner | det |
| 23 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pointed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | perchance | my sureties | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point in a quote | past | my sureties | the ikon | in the corner | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Theme |
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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