Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 137

[185] _Prigovarivaya_, the word generally used to express the action of a person who utters a charm accompanied by a gesture of the hand or finger.

Who acts: person, hand · What happens: use, express, utter, accompany, act, gesture · To what, where: word, action, charm

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, hand), 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	_	2 185	punct
2	185	185	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 185	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Prigovarivaya	punct
5	Prigovarivaya	Prigovarivaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 185	nmod:unmarked
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Prigovarivaya	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 word	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Prigovarivaya	appos
10	generally	generally	ADV	_	11 used	advmod
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 word	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 express	mark
13	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 action	det
15	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 express	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 person	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 action	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 utters	nsubj
20	utters	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 person	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 charm	det
22	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 utters	obj
23	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 charm	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 gesture	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 gesture	det
26	gesture	gesture	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 accompanied	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hand	det
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gesture	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 finger	cc
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hand	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 185	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	participle		the word not said here	generally property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	express	to-infinitive		the action of a person		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme
3	utter speech: other	present	a person	a charm		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent charm=Topic
4	accompany	participle		a charm not said here	by a gesture of the hand or finger	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by gesture=Destination
5	act		a person			nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent
6	gesture		the hand or finger			nom gesture «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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