Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 112
The inhabitants of the Ukraine are said still to retain some recollection of the one-eyed nation of Arimaspians of whom Herodotus speaks (Bk.
Who acts: Herodotus · What happens: say, retain, speak, recollect · To what, where: inhabitants, recollection, Bk, eyed nation · 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 (Herodotus), 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 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ukraine | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ukraine | det |
| 5 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 inhabitants | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 retain | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 retain | mark |
| 10 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 recollection | det |
| 12 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 retain | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nation | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nation | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eyed | nummod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 17 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nation | amod |
| 18 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recollection | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Arimaspians | case |
| 20 | Arimaspians | Arimaspian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 nation | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 Arimaspians | nmod |
| 23 | Herodotus | Herodotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 speaks | nsubj |
| 24 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 whom | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bk | punct |
| 26 | Bk | Bk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 speaks | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the inhabitants of the Ukraine | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | retain | to-infinitive | some recollection of the eyed nation of Arimaspians of the eyed nation of Arimaspians | still | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | Herodotus | Bk | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | recollect | the eyed nation of Arimaspians of the eyed nation of Arimaspians of the eyed nation | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: of=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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