Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 71
[1] So our word "book," the German _Buch_, is derived from the _Buche_ or beech tree, of which the old Runic staves were formed.
Who acts: word, our · What happens: book, derive, form, word · To what, where: book, Buche, old Runic staves
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, our), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 book | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 book | advmod |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 word | nmod:poss |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 book | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 book | punct |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 book | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 German | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 German | det |
| 12 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 book | appos |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 German | punct |
| 14 | Buch | Buch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 German | flat |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 German | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 book | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 derived | aux:pass |
| 18 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Buche | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Buche | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Buche | punct |
| 22 | Buche | Buche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 derived | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Buche | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 tree | cc |
| 25 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tree | compound |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Buche | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 formed | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 formed | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 staves | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 staves | amod |
| 32 | Runic | runic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 staves | amod |
| 33 | staves | stave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 formed | aux:pass |
| 35 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 derived | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | book in a quote | our word | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | derive | present · passive | book | the Buche or beech tree | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from buche=Material | ||||
| 3 | form | past · passive | the old Runic staves | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word | our | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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