Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 132
Its origin is disputed, but it appears to be of Tartar extraction.
Who acts: it · What happens: dispute, appear, be · To what, where: origin
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 origin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disputed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 disputed | aux:pass |
| 4 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 appears | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 appears | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 appears | nsubj |
| 8 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 disputed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 extraction | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 extraction | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 extraction | case |
| 12 | Tartar | Tartar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 extraction | compound |
| 13 | extraction | extraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appears | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disputed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispute | present · passive | hero's origin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | appear | present | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | of Tartar extraction | 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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