Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 45
Numerous legends speak of the strange connection which exists between St. George and the Wolf.
Who acts: Numerous legends, strange connection · What happens: speak, exist · To what, where: George · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Numerous legends, strange connection), 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 | Numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legends | amod |
| 2 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 connection | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 connection | det |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 connection | amod |
| 7 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speak | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 exists | nsubj |
| 9 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 connection | acl:relcl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 George | case |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | nmod:desc |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 exists | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Wolf | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Numerous legends | of the strange connection | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | exist | present | the strange connection | George St. and the Wolf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between george=Location |
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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