Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 82
According to a Lithuanian tradition,[356] there is a certain lake which is ruled by the monstrous pike Strukis.
Who acts: monstrous pike · What happens: accord, be, rule · To what, where: certain lake
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monstrous pike), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 tradition | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tradition | det |
| 4 | Lithuanian | lithuanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tradition | amod |
| 5 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lake | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tradition | punct |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 356 | punct |
| 8 | 356 | 356 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 is | obl |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 356 | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lake | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lake | amod |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ruled | aux:pass |
| 17 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lake | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 pike | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pike | det |
| 20 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pike | amod |
| 21 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ruled | obl |
| 22 | Strukis | Strukis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pike | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a certain lake | accord a Lithuanian tradition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rule | present · passive | the monstrous pike | a certain lake | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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