Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 99
The supernatural being who, in folk-tales, sways the elements and preys upon mankind, is most inadequately designated by such names as _Vyed'ma_, _Hexe_, or _Witch_, suggestive as those now homely terms are of merely human, though diabolically intensified malevolence.
Who acts: supernatural, such names, folk tales · What happens: be, sway, designate, intensify · To what, where: folk tales, elements, most
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 (supernatural, such names, folk tales), 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 | 2 supernatural | det |
| 2 | supernatural | supernatural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tales | cop |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 tales | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tales | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tales | case |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 human | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sways | punct |
| 11 | sways | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tales | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elements | det |
| 13 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sways | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 preys | cc |
| 15 | preys | prey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 elements | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 mankind | case |
| 17 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 elements | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 designated | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 designated | aux:pass |
| 20 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 designated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | inadequately | inadequately | ADV | _ | 22 designated | advmod |
| 22 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sways | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 names | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 names | amod |
| 25 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 designated | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 Vyed'ma | case |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 as | punct |
| 28 | Vyed'ma | Vyed'ma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 designated | obl |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Vyed'ma | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Hexe | punct |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Hexe | punct |
| 32 | Hexe | Hexe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Vyed'ma | conj |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 designated | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Witch | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 Witch | cc |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Witch | punct |
| 37 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | conj |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 tales | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 suggestive | punct |
| 40 | suggestive | suggestive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tales | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 terms | case |
| 42 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 45 terms | det |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 homely | advmod |
| 44 | homely | homely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 terms | amod |
| 45 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 suggestive | obl |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 human | cop |
| 47 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 49 human | mark |
| 48 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 49 human | advmod |
| 49 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 malevolence | punct |
| 51 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 54 malevolence | mark |
| 52 | diabolically | diabolically | ADV | _ | 53 intensified | advmod |
| 53 | intensified | intensify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 malevolence | amod |
| 54 | malevolence | malevolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 human | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 human | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the supernatural | folk tales or Witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sway | present | the elements and preys | upon mankind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location element=Theme | ||||
| 3 | designate | present · passive | such names | most | as Vyed'ma and Hexe; inadequately property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as vyed'ma=Attribute | |||
| 4 | be | the supernatural not said here | as that homely terms | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | present | folk tales or Witch | intensified malevolence obl; human, merely property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | intensify | participle | diabolically property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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