Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 85
The story of Immortal Koshchei is one of very frequent occurrence, the different versions maintaining a unity of idea, but varying considerably in detail.
Who acts: story, different versions · What happens: be, maintain, vary · To what, where: one, unity, detail
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 (story, different versions), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Immortal | case |
| 4 | Immortal | Immortal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 5 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Immortal | flat |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 occurrence | case |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 frequent | advmod |
| 10 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 occurrence | amod |
| 11 | occurrence | occurrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 versions | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 versions | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 versions | amod |
| 15 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 occurrence | appos |
| 16 | maintaining | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 versions | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 unity | det |
| 18 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 maintaining | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 idea | case |
| 20 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unity | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 varying | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 varying | cc |
| 23 | varying | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 maintaining | conj |
| 24 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 23 varying | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 detail | case |
| 26 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 varying | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the story of Immortal | one | of frequent occurrence | tree rules | |||
| 2 | maintain | gerund | the different versions not said here | a unity of idea | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent unity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vary | gerund | the different versions not said here | detail | considerably property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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