Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 80
Cosmas and Damian) figure in Russian folk-lore as saintly and supernatural smiths, frequently at war with snakes, which they maltreat in various ways.
Who acts: smiths · What happens: maltreat · To what, where: snakes, various ways
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 (smiths), 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 | Cosmas | Cosmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 figure | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Damian | cc |
| 3 | Damian | Damian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cosmas | conj |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cosmas | punct |
| 5 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lore | case |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lore | amod |
| 8 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lore | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 folk | punct |
| 10 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 figure | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 saintly | case |
| 12 | saintly | saintly | ADV | _ | 10 lore | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smiths | cc |
| 14 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 smiths | amod |
| 15 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lore | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 war | punct |
| 17 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 19 war | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 war | case |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lore | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 snakes | case |
| 21 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 war | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 maltreat | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 maltreat | obj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 maltreat | nsubj |
| 25 | maltreat | maltreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 snakes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 ways | case |
| 27 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ways | amod |
| 28 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 maltreat | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 figure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maltreat | present | smiths = smith | snakes | various ways | 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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