Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 101
The opening of the story of Likho is somewhat similar to that of one of the tales of Indian origin translated by Stanislas Julien from the Chinese.
Who acts: opening, Indian origin · What happens: be, translate, tell · To what, where: Indian origin, Chinese · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening, Indian origin), 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 opening | det |
| 2 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 similar | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opening | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Likho | case |
| 7 | Likho | Likho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 similar | cop |
| 9 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 10 similar | advmod |
| 10 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 similar | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 similar | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tales | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tales | det |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 origin | case |
| 19 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 origin | amod |
| 20 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tales | nmod |
| 21 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 origin | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Julien | case |
| 23 | Stanislas | Stanislas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Julien | compound |
| 24 | Julien | Julien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 translated | obl:agent |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Chinese | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Chinese | det |
| 27 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 translated | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 similar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the opening of the story of Likho | to that; of one of the tales of Indian origin; similar, somewhat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | translate | participle | Indian origin not said here | the Chinese | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Patient from chinese=Initial_State | ||||
| 3 | tell | Indian origin | nom tale «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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