Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 186

In the German translation (p. 188) _Wie dies nun die Kuh sah, die einst seine Mutter gewesen war_.

Who acts: Wie · What happens: die · To what, where: German translation, Kuh, seine Mutter war

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 (Wie), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 translation	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 translation	det
3	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 translation	amod
4	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dies	obl
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 p.	punct
6	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 translation	appos
7	188	188	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 p.	flat
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 p.	punct
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 dies	punct
10	Wie	Wie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dies	nsubj
11	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 die	compound
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dies	xcomp
14	Kuh	Kuh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 die	obj
15	sah	sah	INTJ	_	13 die	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 die	conj
18	einst	ein	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 seine	amod
19	seine	seine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 war	compound
20	Mutter	Mutter	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 war	compound
21	gewesen	gewesen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Mutter	flat
22	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 die	obj
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	die	present	Wie		the German translation	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	die	infinitive	Wie not said here	Kuh		tree rules
3	die	infinitive	Wie not said here	seine Mutter war		tree rules

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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