Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 145

This is _Gore_, or Woe, who is frequently represented in popular poetry--sometimes under the name of _Beda_ or Misery--as chasing and ultimately destroying the unhappy victims of destiny.

Who acts: This · What happens: be, represent, chase, destroy, name · To what, where: Gore, Woe, unhappy victims, Beda

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Gore	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Gore	cop
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Gore	punct
4	Gore	Gore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 represented	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 represented	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 represented	cc
8	Woe	Woe	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 represented	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 represented	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 represented	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 represented	aux:pass
12	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	13 represented	advmod
13	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Gore	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 poetry	case
15	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poetry	amod
16	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 represented	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 name	punct
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 name	advmod
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 name	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 name	det
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poetry	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Beda	case
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 of	punct
24	Beda	Beda	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 name	nmod
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 Beda	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 Misery	cc
27	Misery	Misery	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Beda	conj
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 chasing	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 chasing	mark
30	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 represented	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 destroying	cc
32	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	33 destroying	advmod
33	destroying	destroy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 chasing	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 victims	det
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 victims	amod
36	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 destroying	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 destiny	case
38	destiny	destiny	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 victims	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Gore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	Gore		tree rules
2	represent	present · passive		Woe	in popular poetry and the name of Beda or Misery; frequently property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in poetry=Attribute
3	chase	gerund				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	destroy	gerund		the unhappy victims of destiny	ultimately property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Patient
5	name			Beda or Misery		nom name «communication 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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