Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 130
The first is a certain Morfei (Morpheus?) who figures in the following variant of a well-known tale.
Who acts: first, certain Morfei, known tale · What happens: be, figure, follow, know, vary · To what, where: certain Morfei, variant
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, certain Morfei, known tale), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Morfei | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Morfei | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Morfei | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Morfei | amod |
| 6 | Morfei | Morfei | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Morpheus | punct |
| 8 | Morpheus | Morpheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Morfei | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Morpheus | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Morpheus | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 figures | nsubj |
| 12 | figures | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Morfei | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 variant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 variant | det |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 variant | case |
| 16 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 figures | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tale | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tale | det |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 known | advmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 well | punct |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tale | amod |
| 22 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 variant | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Morfei | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the first | a certain Morfei | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | figure | present | a certain Morfei | the variant of a known tale | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | vary | a known tale | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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