Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 15
Thence is it that spittle is impure (_pogana_).
Who acts: dog · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | Thence | thence | ADV | _ | 7 impure | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 impure | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 impure | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 impure | mark |
| 5 | spittle | spittle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 impure | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 impure | cop |
| 7 | impure | impure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 pogana | punct |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 pogana | punct |
| 10 | pogana | pogana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 impure | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 pogana | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 pogana | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 impure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | dog | pogana obl; impure, thence property | 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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