Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 65
According to Afanasief,[251] the Carinthian name for the day, _Sibne dan_, is a clear proof that it was once holy to Siva, the Lithuanian Seewa, the Slavonic goddess answering to Ceres.
Who acts: name, Slavonic goddess · What happens: accord, be, answer · To what, where: clear proof, Siva, Ceres
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Slavonic goddess), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Afanasief | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 proof | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Afanasief | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 251 | punct |
| 6 | 251 | 251 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Afanasief | list |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 251 | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 9 | Carinthian | carinthian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 251 | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Afanasief | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sibne | punct |
| 16 | Sibne | Sibne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Afanasief | appos |
| 17 | dan | Dan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sibne | flat |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sibne | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Afanasief | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 proof | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 proof | det |
| 22 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 proof | amod |
| 23 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 holy | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 holy | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 holy | cop |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 holy | advmod |
| 28 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 proof | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Siva | case |
| 30 | Siva | Siva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 holy | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Seewa | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Seewa | det |
| 33 | Lithuanian | Lithuanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Seewa | compound |
| 34 | Seewa | Seewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Siva | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 goddess | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 goddess | det |
| 37 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 goddess | amod |
| 38 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proof | conj |
| 39 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 goddess | acl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Ceres | case |
| 41 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 answering | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 proof | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a clear proof and the Slavonic goddess | accord Afanasief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | name | a clear proof and the Slavonic goddess not said here | Siva and the Lithuanian Seewa | holy, once property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the Slavonic goddess not said here | Ceres | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ceres=Co-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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