Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 69
Volga and Vazuza had a long dispute as to which was the wiser, the stronger, and the more worthy of high respect.
Who acts: Volga · What happens: have, be · To what, where: long dispute
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 (Volga), 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 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Vazuza | cc |
| 3 | Vazuza | Vazuza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Volga | conj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dispute | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dispute | amod |
| 7 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 wiser | mark |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wiser | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wiser | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wiser | det |
| 13 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stronger | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stronger | det |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 wiser | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 worthy | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 worthy | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 worthy | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 worthy | amod |
| 21 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 respect | case |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 respect | amod |
| 24 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worthy | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Volga and Vazuza | a long dispute | the more worthy of high respect obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules |
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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