Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 134

We will now take one of those versions of the story which describe how Koshchei's death is brought about by the destruction of that extraneous object on which his existence depends.

Who acts: We, story, destruction, existence, Koshchei, death · What happens: take, describe, bring about, depend, die, destroy · To what, where: one, death, extraneous object

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 (We, story, destruction, existence), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 versions	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 versions	det
8	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 story	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 versions	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 describe	nsubj
13	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 story	acl:relcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 brought	advmod
15	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 death	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Koshchei	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	aux:pass
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 describe	advcl
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 brought	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 destruction	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 destruction	det
23	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 object	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 object	det
26	extraneous	extraneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 object	amod
27	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 destruction	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 depends	obl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 existence	nmod:poss
31	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 depends	nsubj
32	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 object	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	We	one of that versions of the story	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	describe	present	the story				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	bring about	present · passive	the destruction of that extraneous object	Koshchei's death		about property	vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
4	depend	present	death's existence			on that extraneous object	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on which=Theme
5	die		Koshchei				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
6	destroy			that extraneous object			nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient
7	exist		death				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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