Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 39

Ivan is the Sun, the aurora [or dawn] is his [true] sister; at morning, near the abode of the aurora, that is, in the east, the shades of night [his witch, or false sister] go underground, and the Sun arises to the heavens; this is the mythical pair of scales.

Who acts: Ivan, that, true sister, Sun, this · What happens: be, go, arise, shade · To what, where: Sun, true sister, east, mythical pair, night

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 (Ivan, that, true sister, Sun), 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	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sister	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Sun	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ivan	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 aurora	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 aurora	det
7	aurora	aurora	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ivan	appos
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 dawn	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 dawn	cc
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aurora	appos
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 dawn	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sister	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
14	[	[	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sister	amod
16	]	]	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 go	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 morning	case
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sister	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 abode	punct
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 abode	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 abode	det
24	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 morning	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 aurora	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 aurora	det
27	aurora	aurora	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 abode	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 east	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 east	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 east	cop
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 east	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 east	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 east	det
34	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sister	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shades	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shades	det
37	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sister	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 night	case
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shades	nmod
40	[	[	PUNCT	_	42 witch	punct
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 witch	nmod:poss
42	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shades	appos
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sister	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 sister	cc
45	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sister	amod
46	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 witch	conj
47	]	]	PUNCT	_	42 witch	punct
48	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
49	underground	underground	ADV	_	48 go	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 arises	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 arises	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Sun	det
53	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 arises	nsubj
54	arises	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 go	parataxis
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 heavens	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 heavens	det
57	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 arises	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 pair	punct
59	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 pair	nsubj
60	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 pair	cop
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 pair	det
62	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 pair	amod
63	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 go	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 scales	case
65	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 pair	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Sun			tree rules
2	is a	present	Ivan	Ivan's true sister and the east			tree rules
3	is	present	that		the east		tree rules
4	go	present	Ivan's true sister and the east			underground property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	arise	present	the Sun			to the heavens	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	present	this	the mythical pair		of scales	tree rules
7	shade			night			nom shade «state transitive»: of=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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