Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 164

The resemblance between the word _kukla_, a puppet, and the name and cry of the cuckoo (_Kukushka_) may be merely accidental, but that bird has a marked mythological character.

Who acts: resemblance, bird, cuckoo · What happens: be, have, mark, cry · To what, where: marked mythological character

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 (resemblance, bird, cuckoo), 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	2 resemblance	det
2	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accidental	nsubj
3	between	between	ADP	_	5 word	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 resemblance	nmod
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 kukla	punct
7	kukla	kukla	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	appos
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 kukla	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 puppet	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 puppet	det
11	puppet	puppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 name	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 name	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 resemblance	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cry	cc
17	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 name	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cuckoo	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cuckoo	det
20	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cry	nmod
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 Kukushka	punct
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 Kukushka	punct
23	Kukushka	Kukushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cuckoo	appos
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 Kukushka	punct
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 Kukushka	punct
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 accidental	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 accidental	cop
28	merely	merely	ADV	_	29 accidental	advmod
29	accidental	accidental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 has	cc
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 bird	det
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	nsubj
34	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 accidental	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 character	det
36	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 character	amod
37	mythological	mythological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 character	amod
38	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 accidental	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	the resemblance between the word and a puppet and the name and cry of the cuckoo		accidental, merely property	tree rules
2	have	present	that bird	a marked mythological character		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient
3	mark	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry		the cuckoo			nom cry «communication 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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