Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 66
About the Volga and its affluent, the Vazuza, the following story is told:--
What happens: follow, tell · To what, where: Vazuza · 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: 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 Volga | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Volga | det |
| 3 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 affluent | cc |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 affluent | nmod:poss |
| 6 | affluent | affluent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Volga | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Vazuza | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Vazuza | det |
| 9 | Vazuza | Vazuza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Vazuza | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux:pass |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the Vazuza | about the Volga and sea's affluent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about volga=Topic |
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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