Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 40

In a Little-Russian variant[194] of one of those numerous stories, current in all lands, which commence with the escape of the heroine from an incestuous union, a priest insists on marrying his daughter.

Who acts: lands, priest, heroine · What happens: commence, insist, marry, escape · To what, where: daughter

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lands, priest, heroine), 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	_	6 variant	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 variant	det
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Russian	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Little	punct
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 variant	amod
6	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	8 194	punct
8	194	194	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 variant	appos
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	8 194	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 194	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 stories	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 stories	det
14	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stories	amod
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 current	punct
17	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 variant	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 lands	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 lands	det
20	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 current	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 commence	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 commence	nsubj
23	commence	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 lands	acl:relcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 escape	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 escape	det
26	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 commence	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 heroine	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heroine	det
29	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 escape	nmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 union	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 union	det
32	incestuous	incestuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 union	amod
33	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heroine	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 insists	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 priest	det
36	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 insists	nsubj
37	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 commence	conj
38	on	on	SCONJ	_	39 marrying	mark
39	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 insists	advcl
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 daughter	nmod:poss
41	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 marrying	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 variant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	commence	present	all lands		with the escape of the heroine from a incestuous union	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with escape=Subeventuality
2	insist speech: other	present	a priest			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	marry	gerund	a priest not said here	priest's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	escape		the heroine from a incestuous union			nom escape «act intransitive»: of=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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