Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 94
In White-Russia there is a legend about two rivers, the beginning of which has evidently been taken from the story of Jacob and Esau:--
Who acts: legend · What happens: be, take · To what, where: White, story
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 (legend), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 White | case |
| 2 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Russia | punct |
| 4 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 White | conj |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 rivers | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 rivers | nummod |
| 11 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 legend | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beginning | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beginning | det |
| 14 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rivers | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 taken | obl |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 18 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 20 taken | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 beginning | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 story | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Jacob | case |
| 25 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 story | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Esau | cc |
| 27 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Jacob | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a legend about two rivers and the beginning | White and Russia; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in white=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect · passive | the story of Jacob and Esau | of the beginning | evidently property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: of which=Initial_Location |
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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