Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 98
The _Norka-Zvyer'_ (Norka-Beast) of this story is a fabulous creature, but zoologically the name of Norka (from _nora_ = a hole) belongs to the Otter.
Who acts: Norka Zvyer, name · What happens: be, belong, name · To what, where: fabulous creature, Norka
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 (Norka Zvyer, name), 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 | 5 Zvyer | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Norka | punct |
| 3 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zvyer | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Norka | punct |
| 5 | Zvyer | Zvyer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 creature | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 Zvyer | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Zvyer | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Norka | punct |
| 9 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Zvyer | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Beast | punct |
| 11 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Norka | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Norka | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Zvyer | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 creature | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 creature | det |
| 18 | fabulous | fabulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 creature | amod |
| 19 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 name | cc |
| 22 | zoologically | zoologically | ADV | _ | 24 name | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 name | det |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 belongs | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Norka | case |
| 26 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 name | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 nora | punct |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 nora | case |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 from | punct |
| 30 | nora | nora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 name | appos |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 nora | punct |
| 32 | = | = | SYM | _ | 34 hole | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hole | det |
| 34 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nora | conj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 nora | punct |
| 36 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 creature | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Otter | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Otter | det |
| 39 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 belongs | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Norka Zvyer of this story | a fabulous creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | the name of Norka | to the Otter | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | Norka | nom name «communication 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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