Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 61
The Servians say that at the division of the world Ilya received the thunder and lightning as his share, and that the crash and blaze of the storm are signs of his contest with the devil.
Who acts: Servians, Ilya, crash, storm · What happens: say, receive, be, share, blaze, contest · To what, where: thunder, division, signs · 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 (Servians, Ilya, crash, storm), 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 Servians | det |
| 2 | Servians | Servian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 received | mark |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 division | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 division | det |
| 7 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 division | nmod |
| 11 | Ilya | Ilya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 received | nsubj |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thunder | det |
| 14 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lightning | cc |
| 16 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thunder | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 share | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 share | nmod:poss |
| 19 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 signs | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 signs | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 signs | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 crash | det |
| 24 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 signs | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blaze | cc |
| 26 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crash | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 storm | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 storm | det |
| 29 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blaze | nmod |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 signs | cop |
| 31 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 contest | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 contest | nmod:poss |
| 34 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 signs | nmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 devil | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 devil | det |
| 37 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 contest | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Servians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | Ilya | the thunder and lightning | the division of the world | as Ilya's share | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme at division=Location | ||
| 3 | is a | present | the crash and blaze of the storm | signs | of Ilya's contest with the devil | tree rules | |||
| 4 | share | Ilya | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | blaze | the storm | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | contest | Ilya | with the devil | nom contest «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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