Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 9

There is a Russian word _lub_, diminutive _lubok_, meaning the soft bark of the lime tree, which at one time was used instead of paper.

Who acts: Russian word · What happens: be, mean, use · To what, where: soft bark

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 (Russian word), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 lub	punct
7	lub	lub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	appos
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 lub	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 diminutive	punct
10	diminutive	diminutive	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	conj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 lubok	punct
12	lubok	lubok	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	appos
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 lubok	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 meaning	punct
15	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 is	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bark	det
17	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bark	amod
18	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meaning	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bark	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 used	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 used	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 time	nummod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 used	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 used	aux:pass
29	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bark	acl
30	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	32 paper	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 instead	fixed
32	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 used	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	a Russian word and diminutive		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	gerund	a Russian word and diminutive not said here	the soft bark of the lime tree				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Topic
3	use	past · passive		the soft bark of the lime tree		time	instead paper	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: which=Patient

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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