Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 48
They may, also, be related to the mermen and mermaids of the sea-coasts, and to the similar beings with which, under various names, tradition peoples the lakes, and streams, and fountains of Europe.
Who acts: mortals, tradition · What happens: be, people · To what, where: lakes, various names
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortals, tradition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:1709): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 related | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 related | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 also | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 related | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 also | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 related | cop |
| 7 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 mermen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mermen | det |
| 10 | mermen | merman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 related | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mermaids | cc |
| 12 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mermen | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 coasts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coasts | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coasts | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sea | punct |
| 17 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mermen | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beings | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beings | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 beings | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beings | det |
| 22 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beings | amod |
| 23 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mermen | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 peoples | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 names | punct |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 names | case |
| 28 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 names | amod |
| 29 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 peoples | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 names | punct |
| 31 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 peoples | nsubj |
| 32 | peoples | people | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beings | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lakes | det |
| 34 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 peoples | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 streams | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 streams | cc |
| 37 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lakes | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fountains | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fountains | cc |
| 40 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lakes | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Europe | case |
| 42 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 fountains | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | mortals = mortal | to the mermen of the sea coasts and mermaids and the similar beings; related property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | people | present | tradition | the lakes and streams and fountains of Europe | various names | with the similar beings | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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