Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 47
In another story,[151] the being who obtains a child from one of the incautious fathers of the Jephthah type who abound in popular fiction, is of a very singular nature.
Who acts: Jephthah type · What happens: be, abound · To what, where: popular fiction, story
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jephthah type), 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 | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nature | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 151 | punct |
| 6 | 151 | 151 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 story | appos |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 151 | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 obtains | det |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 obtains | cop |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 obtains | nsubj |
| 11 | obtains | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 151 | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obtains | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 child | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fathers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fathers | det |
| 18 | incautious | incautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fathers | amod |
| 19 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 type | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 type | det |
| 22 | Jephthah | Jephthah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 type | compound |
| 23 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fathers | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 abound | nsubj |
| 25 | abound | abound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 type | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fiction | case |
| 27 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fiction | amod |
| 28 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 abound | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 nature | cop |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 nature | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 nature | det |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 singular | advmod |
| 34 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 nature | amod |
| 35 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | obtain property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | abound | present | the Jephthah type | popular fiction | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fiction=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | another story | of a singular nature | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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