Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 174

The word _solovei_ generally means a nightingale, but it was also the name of a mythical hero, a robber whose voice or whistle had the power of killing those who heard it.

Who acts: word, nightingale, name, power · What happens: mean, be, have, kill, hear · To what, where: nightingale, name, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, nightingale, name, power), 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	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 solovei	punct
4	solovei	solovei	X	Foreign=Yes	2 word	appos
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 solovei	punct
6	generally	generally	ADV	_	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nightingale	det
9	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 name	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 name	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 name	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 name	cop
14	also	also	ADV	_	16 name	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 name	det
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 hero	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hero	det
19	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hero	amod
20	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 name	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 robber	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 robber	det
23	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 voice	nmod:poss
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 whistle	cc
27	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 voice	conj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 means	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 power	det
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 killing	mark
32	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 power	acl
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 killing	obj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 heard	nsubj
35	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 those	acl:relcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heard	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the word	a nightingale	generally property	tree rules
2	is a	past	nightingale	the name	of a mythical hero	tree rules
3	have	past	the name	the power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	kill	gerund	the power not said here	the power		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
5	hear	past		power		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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