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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 76

There is an interesting Bulgarian legend in which St. George appears in his Christian capacity of dragon-slayer, but surrounded by personages belonging to heathen mythology.

Who acts: interesting Bulgarian legend, George, personages · What happens: be, appear, surround, belong · To what, where: interesting Bulgarian legend

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 (interesting Bulgarian legend, George, personages), 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

expldetamodamodnsubjcaseoblnmod:descnsubjparataxiscasenmod:possamodoblcasecompoundpunctnmodpunctccadvclcaseobl:agentaclcaseamodoblpunctrootTherePRONisVERBanDETinterestingADJBulgarianADJlegendNOUNinADPwhichPRONSt.PROPNGeorgePROPNappearsVERBinADPhisPRONChristianADJcapacityNOUNofADPdragonNOUN-PUNCTslayerNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJsurroundedVERBbyADPpersonagesNOUNbelongingVERBtoADPheathenADJmythologyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 isexpl
2isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 legenddet
4interestinginterestingADJDegree=Pos6 legendamod
5BulgarianbulgarianADJDegree=Pos6 legendamod
6legendlegendNOUNNumber=Sing2 isnsubj
7ininADP_8 whichcase
8whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel11 appearsobl
9St.St.PROPNNumber=Sing10 Georgenmod:desc
10GeorgeGeorgePROPNNumber=Sing11 appearsnsubj
11appearsappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 legendparataxis
12ininADP_15 capacitycase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 capacitynmod:poss
14ChristianChristianADJDegree=Pos15 capacityamod
15capacitycapacityNOUNNumber=Sing11 appearsobl
16ofofADP_19 slayercase
17dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing19 slayercompound
18--PUNCT_17 dragonpunct
19slayerslayerNOUNNumber=Sing15 capacitynmod
20,,PUNCT_22 surroundedpunct
21butbutCCONJ_22 surroundedcc
22surroundedsurroundVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 appearsadvcl
23bybyADP_24 personagescase
24personagespersonageNOUNNumber=Plur22 surroundedobl:agent
25belongingbelongVERBVerbForm=Ger24 personagesacl
26totoADP_28 mythologycase
27heathenheathenADJDegree=Pos28 mythologyamod
28mythologymythologyNOUNNumber=Sing25 belongingobl
29..PUNCT_2 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresenta interesting Bulgarian legendtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2appearpresentGeorge St.a interesting Bulgarian legendin George's Christian capacity of dragon slayervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3surroundparticipleGeorge St. not said herevn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4belonggerundpersonages not said hereto heathen mythologyvn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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