Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 91
The districts of the Russian Empire in which a belief in vampires mostly prevails are White Russia and the Ukraine.
Who acts: belief, districts · What happens: prevail, be · To what, where: districts, White Russia
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (belief, districts), 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 districts | det |
| 2 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Russia | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Empire | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Empire | det |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Empire | amod |
| 6 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 districts | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 prevails | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 belief | det |
| 10 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prevails | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 vampires | case |
| 12 | vampires | vampire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 belief | nmod |
| 13 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 prevails | advmod |
| 14 | prevails | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 districts | acl:relcl |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Russia | cop |
| 16 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Russia | amod |
| 17 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Ukraine | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ukraine | det |
| 20 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Russia | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Russia | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | present | a belief in vampires | the districts of the Russian Empire | mostly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the districts of the Russian Empire | White Russia and the Ukraine | 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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