Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 161
4, 5, 54, and 68) in which a child is promised to a Dervish, a _Drakos_, the Devil, and a Demon--and the Gaelic tales of "The Battle of the Birds" and "The Sea-maiden," (Campbell, Nos.
Who acts: Battle · What happens: promise, tell · To what, where: child, Dervish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Battle), 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 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 5 | punct |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 4 | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 54 | punct |
| 5 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 4 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 68 | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 68 | cc |
| 8 | 68 | 68 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 4 | conj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 68 | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 promised | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 promised | aux:pass |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 68 | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Dervish | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Dervish | det |
| 18 | Dervish | Dervish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 promised | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Drakos | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Drakos | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Drakos | punct |
| 22 | Drakos | Drakos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dervish | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dervish | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Devil | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Devil | det |
| 26 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dervish | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Demon | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Demon | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Demon | det |
| 30 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Dervish | appos |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 tales | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tales | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tales | det |
| 34 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tales | amod |
| 35 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Demon | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Battle | case |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Battle | punct |
| 38 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Battle | det |
| 39 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 tales | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Birds | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Birds | det |
| 42 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Battle | nmod |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Battle | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 maiden | cc |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 maiden | punct |
| 46 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 maiden | det |
| 47 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 maiden | nsubj |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 maiden | punct |
| 49 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Battle | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tales | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Demon | punct |
| 52 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 53 Campbell | punct |
| 53 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Demon | parataxis |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 Nos | punct |
| 55 | Nos | Nos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Campbell | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 4 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present · passive | a child | a Dervish and a Drakos and the Devil | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to dervish=Goal | ||||
| 2 | tell | the Battle of the Birds | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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