Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 58
My mother is--the beauteous Sun, And my father--the bright Moon; My brothers are--the many Stars, And my sisters--the white Dawns.
Who acts: mother, brothers · What happens: be · To what, where: beauteous Sun
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 (mother, brothers), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sun | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Sun | cop |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun | det |
| 6 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sun | amod |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 father | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sun | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Moon | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Moon | det |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Moon | amod |
| 15 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 father | appos |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 are | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 are | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 father | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Stars | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Stars | det |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Stars | amod |
| 23 | Stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 father | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sisters | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sisters | cc |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 father | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 Dawns | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Dawns | det |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Dawns | amod |
| 31 | Dawns | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 father | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My mother | the beauteous Sun and my father and the many Stars and my sisters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does | present | My brothers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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