Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 144
Therefore is it that his flow is swifter than that of the Volga and the Dvina; therefore also is it that he has many rapids and many mouths.
Who acts: way, Dnieper · What happens: be, have, flow · To what, where: flow, many rapids
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Dnieper), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 swifter | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 swifter | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swifter | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 swifter | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 flow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swifter | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 swifter | cop |
| 8 | swifter | swift | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 swifter | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Volga | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Volga | det |
| 13 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 that | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Dvina | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dvina | det |
| 16 | Dvina | Dvina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Volga | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 it | punct |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 21 it | advmod |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 it | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 it | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swifter | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 has | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 swifter | advcl |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rapids | amod |
| 26 | rapids | rapid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 has | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mouths | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mouths | amod |
| 29 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rapids | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swifter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | way | than that; swift, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | flow | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Dnieper | many rapids and many mouths | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rapid=Patient | ||||
| 4 | flow | Dnieper | nom flow «event intransitive»: poss=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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