Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 127
_Morevna_ means daughter of _More_, (the Sea or any great water).
Who acts: Morevna · What happens: mean · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morevna), 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 Morevna | punct |
| 2 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Morevna | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 daughter | fixed |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 More | punct |
| 8 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 means | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 More | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sea | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sea | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sea | det |
| 13 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 water | cc |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 water | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sea | conj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 water | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Morevna | daughter | tree rules |
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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