Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 137
In the Russian tales the "death" of the Evil Being with whom the hero contends--the substance, namely, the destruction of which involves his death--is usually the last of a sequence of objects either identical with, or closely resembling, those mentioned in the following story of--
Who acts: hero, destruction, Evil · What happens: be, contend, involve, resemble, mention, follow · To what, where: death, last, Russian tales, those, following story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hero, destruction, Evil), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tales | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 last | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 death | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 death | punct |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tales | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Evil | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Evil | det |
| 11 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | nmod |
| 12 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 whom | cop |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Evil | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hero | det |
| 16 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contends | nsubj |
| 17 | contends | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whom | acl:relcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 substance | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 substance | det |
| 20 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Evil | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 namely | punct |
| 22 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 substance | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 destruction | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 destruction | det |
| 25 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Evil | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 involves | nsubj |
| 28 | involves | involve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 destruction | acl:relcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 death | nmod:poss |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 involves | obj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 tales | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 last | cop |
| 33 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 35 last | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 last | det |
| 35 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 sequence | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 sequence | det |
| 38 | sequence | sequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 last | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 objects | case |
| 40 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sequence | nmod |
| 41 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 42 identical | cc:preconj |
| 42 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 objects | amod |
| 43 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 47 resembling | mark |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 resembling | punct |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 resembling | cc |
| 46 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 47 resembling | advmod |
| 47 | resembling | resemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 identical | advcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 mentioned | punct |
| 49 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 50 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 last | conj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 story | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 story | det |
| 53 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 54 story | amod |
| 54 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 mentioned | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 story | case |
| 56 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | with the Russian tales the death of the Evil | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | contend | present | the hero | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | involve | present | the destruction | hero's death | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the last | the Russian tales the death of the Evil | of a sequence of objects; usually property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | resemble | gerund | closely property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mention speech: other | participle · passive | those | the following story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 7 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | tell | the Evil | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | die | hero | nom death «event 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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