Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 36
Here is another instance of a life-giving operation of a double nature.
Who acts: instance · What happens: be, give, instance, operate · To what, where: giving operation, double nature
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 (instance), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 instance | det |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 operation | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 operation | det |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 life | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 operation | amod |
| 10 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 instance | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nature | det |
| 13 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nature | amod |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 operation | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | another instance of a giving operation of a double nature | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | instance | a giving operation of a double nature | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | operate | a double nature | nom operation «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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