Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 26
From these vocal rivers we will now turn to that elementary force by which in winter they are often rendered mute.
Who acts: we, elementary force · What happens: turn, render · To what, where: vocal rivers, people
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, elementary force), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 rivers | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 rivers | det |
| 3 | vocal | vocal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rivers | amod |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | aux |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 turn | advmod |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 force | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 force | det |
| 11 | elementary | elementary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 force | amod |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 rendered | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 winter | case |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rendered | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rendered | aux:pass |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 rendered | advmod |
| 20 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 force | acl:relcl |
| 21 | mute | mute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rendered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | we | this vocal rivers | now | to that elementary force result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from river=Initial_State to force=Result | ||
| 2 | render | present · passive | that elementary force | people | winter | often property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient mute=Theme |
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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