Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 35
He is often known by the name of Zmei [snake] Goruinuich [son of the _gora_ or mountain], and sometimes he is supposed to dwell in the mountain caverns.
Who acts: name · What happens: know, suppose, dwell, name · To what, where: outline, mountain caverns, Zmei
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Zmei | case |
| 9 | Zmei | Zmei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 snake | punct |
| 11 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Zmei | appos |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 snake | punct |
| 13 | Goruinuich | Goruinuich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Zmei | flat |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Zmei | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gora | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gora | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 gora | punct |
| 19 | gora | gora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 gora | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 mountain | cc |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gora | conj |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 supposed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 supposed | cc |
| 26 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 supposed | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 supposed | aux:pass |
| 29 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 known | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 dwell | mark |
| 31 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 supposed | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 caverns | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 caverns | det |
| 34 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 caverns | compound |
| 35 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 dwell | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | the name of Zmei | outline | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | suppose | present · passive | outline | sometimes property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | to-infinitive | the mountain caverns | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cavern=Location | |||||
| 4 | name | Zmei | nom name «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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