Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 28

Such is the story, says Bronevsky, which the Kirghiz tell with respect to some statues of unknown origin which stand (or used to stand) near the Ayaguza, a river falling into Lake Balkhash.

Who acts: Such story, Bronevsky, river · What happens: be, say, tell, use, stand, fall · To what, where: Such story, stand, Ayaguza, Lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such story, Bronevsky, river), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Bronevsky	Bronevsky	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 tell	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Kirghiz	det
11	Kirghiz	Kirghiz	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 respect	case
14	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 statues	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 statues	det
17	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 respect	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 origin	case
19	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 origin	amod
20	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 statues	nmod
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 stand	det
22	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 statues	appos
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 used	cc
25	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 stand	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stand	mark
27	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	xcomp
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 stand	punct
29	near	near	ADP	_	31 Ayaguza	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Ayaguza	det
31	Ayaguza	Ayaguza	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stand	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 river	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 river	det
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Ayaguza	appos
35	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 river	acl
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 Lake	case
37	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 falling	obl
38	Balkhash	Balkhash	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Lake	flat
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Such story			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the Such story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	Bronevsky			with respect to some statues of unknown origin	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
4	use	participle		which stand not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	stand	to-infinitive			the Ayaguza		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near ayaguza=Location
6	fall	gerund	a river not said here			into Lake result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lake=Result

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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