Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 181
_Vyed'ma_ and _witch_ are in fact cousins who, though very distantly related, closely resemble each other both in appearance and in character.
What happens: be, resemble · To what, where: fact cousins, each, appearance
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: 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 Vyed'ma | punct |
| 2 | Vyed'ma | Vyed'ma | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vyed'ma | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 witch | cc |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Vyed'ma | conj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 cousins | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cousins | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cousins | case |
| 10 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cousins | compound |
| 11 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Vyed'ma | appos |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 related | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 related | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 related | mark |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 distantly | advmod |
| 16 | distantly | distantly | ADV | _ | 17 related | advmod |
| 17 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cousins | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 resemble | punct |
| 19 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 20 resemble | advmod |
| 20 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 related | conj |
| 21 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 resemble | obj |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 each | fixed |
| 23 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 25 appearance | cc:preconj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 appearance | case |
| 25 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 resemble | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 character | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 character | case |
| 28 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 appearance | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vyed'ma | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fact cousins | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | resemble | infinitive | each | appearance and character | closely property | tree rules |
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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