Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 96
The Russian name for the day, _Sereda_ or _Sreda_, means "the middle," Wednesday being the middle of the working week.
Who acts: Russian name, Wednesday · What happens: mean, be, work · To what, where: middle
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 (Russian name, Wednesday), 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 | 3 name | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sereda | punct |
| 9 | Sereda | Sereda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 name | appos |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sereda | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Sreda | cc |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sreda | punct |
| 13 | Sreda | Sreda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sereda | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sereda | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 middle | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 middle | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 middle | punct |
| 22 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 middle | nsubj |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 middle | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 middle | det |
| 25 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 middle | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 week | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 week | det |
| 28 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 week | amod |
| 29 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 middle | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the Russian name for the day | the middle | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | Wednesday | the middle | week | tree rules | |||
| 3 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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