Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 88
St. Nicholas generally maintains in the legends the kindly character attributed to him in the story in which he and the Prophet Ilya are introduced together.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: maintain, attribute, introduce · To what, where: legends, character, Nicholas, story
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 (Nicholas), 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 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 maintains | nsubj |
| 3 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 4 maintains | advmod |
| 4 | maintains | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 legends | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legends | det |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 maintains | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 character | det |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 character | advmod |
| 10 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 legends | appos |
| 11 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 character | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 attributed | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 story | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attributed | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 introduced | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Prophet | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prophet | det |
| 22 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 he | conj |
| 23 | Ilya | Ilya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Prophet | flat |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 introduced | aux:pass |
| 25 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 story | acl:relcl |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 introduced | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 maintains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | present | Nicholas St. | the legends | generally property | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | attribute | participle | the character not said here | Nicholas | the story | tree rules | |||
| 3 | introduce | present · passive | Nicholas | the story | together property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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