Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 60
[155] _Chort_, a word which, as has been stated, sometimes means a demon, sometimes the Devil.
What happens: state, mean · To what, where: word, demon
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 | _ | 2 155 | punct |
| 2 | 155 | 155 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 155 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chort | punct |
| 5 | Chort | Chort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 155 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chort | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 word | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Chort | appos |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stated | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 which | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 stated | mark |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stated | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 stated | aux:pass |
| 15 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 word | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 means | advmod |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stated | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 demon | det |
| 20 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Devil | punct |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 Devil | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Devil | det |
| 24 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 demon | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 155 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present · perfect · passive | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: which=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | a demon | sometimes property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Topic |
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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