Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 61
Similarly Tuesday is called _Vtornik_, from _vtoroi_ = second; Wednesday is _Sereda_, "the middle;" Thursday _Chetverg_, from _chetverty_ = fourth.
Who acts: Wednesday · What happens: call, be · To what, where: Tuesday, Sereda · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wednesday), 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 | Similarly | similarly | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Vtornik | punct |
| 6 | Vtornik | Vtornik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Vtornik | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vtoroi | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 vtoroi | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 from | punct |
| 11 | vtoroi | vtoroi | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 called | xcomp |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 vtoroi | punct |
| 13 | = | = | SYM | _ | 14 second | punct |
| 14 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 called | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sereda | punct |
| 16 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sereda | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Sereda | cop |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sereda | punct |
| 19 | Sereda | Sereda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sereda | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 middle | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 middle | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 middle | det |
| 24 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Sereda | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Thursday | punct |
| 27 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | parataxis |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Thursday | punct |
| 29 | Chetverg | Chetverg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Thursday | flat |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Thursday | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 chetverty | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 chetverty | case |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 chetverty | punct |
| 34 | chetverty | chetverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 chetverty | punct |
| 36 | = | = | SYM | _ | 37 fourth | punct |
| 37 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 chetverty | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Tuesday | second, similarly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Wednesday | Sereda and the middle | 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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