Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 81
Some Slavonic philologists derive _yaga_ from a root meaning to eat (in Russian _yest'_).
Who acts: Slavonic philologists, root · What happens: derive, mean, eat · To what, where: yaga, Russian
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 (Slavonic philologists, root), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 philologists | det |
| 2 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 philologists | amod |
| 3 | philologists | philologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 derive | nsubj |
| 4 | derive | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 yaga | punct |
| 6 | yaga | yaga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derive | obj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 root | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 root | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 root | det |
| 10 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derive | parataxis |
| 11 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 root | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 meaning | xcomp |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Russian | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Russian | case |
| 16 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 yest | punct |
| 18 | yest | y | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 meaning | xcomp |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 yest | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 yest | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 yest | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 derive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present | some Slavonic philologists | yaga | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yaga=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a root not said here | y property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | a root not said here | Russian | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent russian=Patient |
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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