Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 237

[360] A Ponomar is a kind of sacristan.

Who acts: Ponomar · What happens: be · To what, where: kind

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 (Ponomar), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 360	punct
2	360	360	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 360	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
5	Ponomar	Ponomar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 360	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sacristan	case
10	sacristan	sacristan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 360	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ponomar	a kind				of sacristan	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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