Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 38
In each instance they appear to typify the influence which the supernatural beings to whom they belonged were supposed to exercise over the elements.
Who acts: sticks · What happens: appear, typify, belong, suppose · To what, where: instance, influence, supernatural beings, elements
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sticks), 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 instance | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 instance | det |
| 3 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appear | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 appear | nsubj |
| 5 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 typify | mark |
| 7 | typify | typify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 appear | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 influence | det |
| 9 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 typify | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 supposed | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beings | det |
| 12 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beings | amod |
| 13 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 whom | case |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 beings | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 belonged | nsubj |
| 17 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 whom | acl:relcl |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 supposed | aux:pass |
| 19 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 influence | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 exercise | case |
| 21 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 supposed | obl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 elements | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 elements | det |
| 24 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 supposed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | sticks = stick | each instance | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | typify | to-infinitive | sticks = stick not said here | the influence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | sticks = stick | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | suppose | past · passive | the supernatural beings | the elements | to exercise | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
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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