Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 88

[94] This myth may, perhaps, be the germ from which have sprung the numerous folk-tales about the desertion of a younger brother in some pit or chasm, into which his brothers have lowered him.

What happens: be, spring, lower, desert · To what, where: germ, numerous folk tales, brothers, younger brother

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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 94	punct
2	94	94	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 94	punct
4	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 myth	det
5	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 may	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 94	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 may	punct
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 germ	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perhaps	punct
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 germ	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 germ	det
12	germ	germ	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 may	nsubj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sprung	obl
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sprung	aux
16	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 germ	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tales	det
18	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tales	amod
19	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tales	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 folk	punct
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sprung	obj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 desertion	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 desertion	det
24	desertion	desertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tales	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 brother	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 brother	det
27	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 brother	amod
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 desertion	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 pit	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 pit	det
31	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brother	nmod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 chasm	cc
33	chasm	chasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pit	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lowered	punct
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 lowered	obl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 brothers	nmod:poss
38	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lowered	nsubj:pass
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 lowered	aux
40	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tales	acl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lowered	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 94	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	the germ		perhaps property	tree rules
2	spring	present · perfect	the numerous folk tales	the germ	about the desertion of a younger brother in some pit or chasm	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tale=Theme
3	lower	present · perfect · passive	germ's brothers	the numerous folk tales		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
4	desert		a younger brother in some pit or chasm			nom desertion «act 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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