Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 15
A singular parallel to part of the Egyptian myth is offered by the Hottentot story in which the heart of a girl whom a lion has killed and eaten, is extracted from the lion, and placed in a calabash filled with milk. "
Who acts: Hottentot story · What happens: offer, kill, eat, extract, place, fill · To what, where: singular parallel, lion, heart, Hottentot story, calabash
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 (Hottentot story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parallel | det |
| 2 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parallel | amod |
| 3 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 part | mark |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parallel | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 myth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 myth | det |
| 8 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 myth | amod |
| 9 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 offered | aux:pass |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 14 | Hottentot | Hottentot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 story | compound |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 extracted | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 extracted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heart | nmod |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 killed | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lion | det |
| 25 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 killed | aux |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 girl | acl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 eaten | cc |
| 29 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 killed | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heart | punct |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 extracted | aux:pass |
| 32 | extracted | extract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 story | acl:relcl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 lion | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lion | det |
| 35 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 extracted | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 placed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 placed | cc |
| 38 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 offered | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 calabash | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 calabash | det |
| 41 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 placed | obl |
| 42 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 calabash | acl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 milk | case |
| 44 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 filled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 offered | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present · passive | the Hottentot story | a singular parallel | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | present · perfect · passive | a lion | a girl obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | extract | present · passive | the heart of a girl | the Hottentot story | from the lion | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from lion=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | place | participle | the Hottentot story not said here | a calabash | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in calabash=Destination | ||||
| 6 | fill | participle | a calabash not said here | with milk | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with milk=Instrument |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/15/