Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 145
There is a small stream which falls into Lake Ilmen on its western side, and which is called Chorny Ruchei, the Black Brook.
Who acts: small stream · What happens: be, fall, call · To what, where: Lake · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (small stream), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stream | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stream | amod |
| 5 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 falls | nsubj |
| 7 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stream | acl:relcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 Lake | case |
| 9 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 falls | obl |
| 10 | Ilmen | Ilmen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lake | flat |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 falls | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 called | cc |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 called | aux:pass |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | parataxis |
| 20 | Chorny | Chorny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | Ruchei | Ruchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Chorny | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Brook | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Brook | det |
| 24 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Brook | compound |
| 25 | Brook | Brook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Chorny | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a small stream | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | a small stream | Lake | on stream's western side | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 3 | call | present · passive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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