Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 167
[71] The _chort_ of this legend is evidently akin to the devil himself, whom traditions frequently connect with blacksmiths; but his prototype, in the original form of this story, was doubtless a demigod or demon.
Who acts: chort, prototype · What happens: be, connect, form · To what, where: devil, story
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chort, prototype), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 71 | punct |
| 2 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 71 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chort | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 chort | punct |
| 6 | chort | chort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 71 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 akin | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 legend | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 legend | det |
| 10 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 akin | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 akin | cop |
| 12 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 13 akin | advmod |
| 13 | akin | akin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chort | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 devil | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 devil | det |
| 16 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 akin | obl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 connect | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 connect | punct |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 connect | obj |
| 20 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 connect | nsubj |
| 21 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 22 connect | advmod |
| 22 | connect | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 16 devil | acl:relcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blacksmiths | case |
| 24 | blacksmiths | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 connect | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 doubtless | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 doubtless | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 prototype | nmod:poss |
| 28 | prototype | prototype | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 doubtless | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 form | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 form | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 form | det |
| 32 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 form | amod |
| 33 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prototype | appos |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 story | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 story | det |
| 36 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 form | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 prototype | punct |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 doubtless | cop |
| 39 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 71 | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 demigod | det |
| 41 | demigod | demigod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 doubtless | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 demon | cc |
| 43 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 demigod | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 71 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the chort not said here | of this legend; to the devil; akin, evidently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | connect | present | chort | the devil | with blacksmiths; frequently property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient with blacksmith=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | tradition's prototype | a demigod or demon obl:unmarked; doubtless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | form | this story | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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