Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 75
Kastorsky, in his "Slavonic Mythology," p. 138, starts a theory of his own. "
Who acts: Kastorsky · What happens: start · To what, where: theory
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 (Kastorsky), 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 | Kastorsky | Kastorsky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mythology | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Mythology | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Mythology | nmod:poss |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mythology | punct |
| 6 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mythology | amod |
| 7 | Mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kastorsky | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mythology | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mythology | punct |
| 10 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mythology | appos |
| 11 | 138 | 138 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 p. | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kastorsky | punct |
| 13 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 theory | det |
| 15 | theory | theory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 starts | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 own | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 theory | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 starts | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Kastorsky | a theory of Kastorsky's own | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theory=Eventuality |
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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