Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 73

The most important of these versions is the Lithuanian story of the carpenter who overcomes a Laume--a being in many respects akin to the Baba Yaga--who has proved too strong for his comrades, Perkun and the Devil.

Who acts: carpenter, many respects, Baba Yaga · What happens: be, overcome, akin, prove · To what, where: important Lithuanian story, Laume, many respects

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 (carpenter, many respects, Baba Yaga), 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	3 important	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 important	advmod
3	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 versions	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 versions	det
6	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 important	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 carpenter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 carpenter	det
13	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 overcomes	nsubj
15	overcomes	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 carpenter	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Laume	det
17	Laume	Laume	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 overcomes	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 akin	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 respects	det
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 respects	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 respects	case
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 respects	amod
23	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 akin	nsubj
24	akin	akin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 Yaga	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Yaga	det
27	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Yaga	compound
28	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 akin	obl
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 proved	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 proved	nsubj
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 proved	aux
32	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 Yaga	acl
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 strong	advmod
34	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 proved	ccomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 comrades	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 comrades	nmod:poss
37	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 strong	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Perkun	punct
39	Perkun	Perkun	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Yaga	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 Devil	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Devil	det
42	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Yaga	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the important Lithuanian story		of the carpenter	tree rules
2	overcome	present	the carpenter	a Laume			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot laume=Theme
3	is	gerund			a many respects		tree rules
4	akin	present	a many respects			to the Baba Yaga and Perkun and the Devil	tree rules
5	prove	present · perfect	the Baba Yaga and Perkun and the Devil				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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