Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 163

[197] The Russian word is _zakukovali_, _i.e._, "They began to cuckoo."

Who acts: Russian word, Wallachian · What happens: be, begin, cuckoo · To what, where: zakukovali

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 (Russian word, Wallachian), 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	_	2 197	punct
2	197	197	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 zakukovali	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 zakukovali	cop
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 zakukovali	punct
9	zakukovali	zakukovali	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 197	acl:relcl
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct
13	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	2 197	dep
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 197	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cuckoo	mark
20	cuckoo	cuckoo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 197	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the Russian word	zakukovali	tree rules
2	begin in a quote	past	Wallachian		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cuckoo in a quote	to-infinitive	Wallachian not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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