Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 13
Then the ikon of St Michael spoke to the rich man from the niche and said, "Come now! lend it him, and put it down to my account.
Who acts: ikon, my · What happens: speak, say, come, lend, put down, account · To what, where: ikon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ikon, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ikon | det |
| 3 | ikon | ikon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Michael | case |
| 5 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Michael | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ikon | nmod |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 niche | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 niche | det |
| 14 | niche | niche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoke | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 19 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 Come | advmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Come | punct |
| 22 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Come | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lend | obj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lend | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 put | cc |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Come | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | obj |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 put | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 account | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 account | nmod:poss |
| 32 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the ikon of Michael St | then | to the rich man from the niche | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the ikon of Michael St not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lend in a quote | infinitive | ikon | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put down in a quote | infinitive | ikon | to my account | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 6 | account in a quote | my | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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