Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 84
The latter name (which in Lettish is written Lauma) has never been satisfactorily explained.
What happens: write, not explain · To what, where: Lettish, latter name
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: 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 | 3 name | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 explained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 written | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Lettish | case |
| 7 | Lettish | Lettish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 written | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 written | aux:pass |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 name | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Lauma | Lauma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 written | obj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 explained | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 explained | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 explained | aux:pass |
| 15 | satisfactorily | satisfactorily | ADV | _ | 16 explained | advmod |
| 16 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · passive | Lettish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not explain speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | the latter name | satisfactorily property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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