Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 126
The whole of the story is, towards its termination, fully explained by one of its principal characters--one of the four maidens whom Saktideva simultaneously marries.
Who acts: Saktideva · What happens: be, explain, marry · To what, where: whole termination, four maidens
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saktideva), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 termination | amod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 termination | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 termination | punct |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 termination | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 termination | nmod:poss |
| 10 | termination | termination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 explained | punct |
| 12 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 13 explained | advmod |
| 13 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 termination | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 explained | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 characters | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 characters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 characters | amod |
| 19 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 one | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 maidens | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maidens | det |
| 24 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 maidens | nummod |
| 25 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 marries | obj |
| 27 | Saktideva | Saktideva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 marries | nsubj |
| 28 | simultaneously | simultaneously | ADV | _ | 29 marries | advmod |
| 29 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 termination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | towards horse's whole termination | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | participle | horse's whole termination not said here | by one of horse's principal characters; fully property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | marry | present | Saktideva | the four maidens | simultaneously property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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