Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 52
In the Vladimir Government he is said "to destroy devils with stone arrows,"--weapons corresponding to the hammer of Thor and the lance of Indra.
Who acts: weapons · What happens: say, destroy, correspond · To what, where: Ilya, Vladimir Government, devils · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weapons), 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 Government | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Government | det |
| 3 | Vladimir | Vladimir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Government | compound |
| 4 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 destroy | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 destroy | mark |
| 10 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | csubj:pass |
| 11 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 destroy | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 arrows | case |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrows | compound |
| 14 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 destroy | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 destroy | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 destroy | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 weapons | punct |
| 18 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 destroy | obl |
| 19 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 weapons | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 hammer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hammer | det |
| 22 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 corresponding | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Thor | case |
| 24 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hammer | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lance | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lance | det |
| 27 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hammer | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Indra | case |
| 29 | Indra | Indra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 lance | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Ilya | the Vladimir Government | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in government=Manner | ||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | to-infinitive | devils | with stone arrows; weapons obl | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent devil=Patient with arrow=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | correspond | gerund | weapons not said here | to the hammer of Thor and the lance of Indra | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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