Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 104
He is called "Immortal" or "The Deathless,"[100] because of his superiority to the ordinary laws of existence.
What happens: call · To what, where: spirit, ordinary laws · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Immortal | punct |
| 5 | Immortal | Immortal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Immortal | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 Deathless | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Deathless | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Deathless | det |
| 10 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Immortal | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 100 | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 100 | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 100 | punct |
| 14 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Immortal | parataxis |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 100 | punct |
| 16 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 superiority | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 because | fixed |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 superiority | nmod:poss |
| 19 | superiority | superiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 laws | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 laws | det |
| 22 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 laws | amod |
| 23 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 existence | case |
| 25 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laws | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | spirit | the ordinary laws of existence | because spirit's superiority | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to law=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: «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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