Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 139
Among these are a few referring to a White and to a Black God.
Who acts: referring · What happens: refer, be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (referring), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 God | obl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 God | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 God | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 God | amod |
| 6 | referring | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 God | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 White | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 White | det |
| 9 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 referring | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 God | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 God | det |
| 13 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 God | amod |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 God | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | gerund | to a White | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to white=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | referring | to a few Black God; among these | tree rules |
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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