Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 138
A striking parallel to the Russian and the former of the Moravian stories is offered by "a legend of serpent worship," from Bhaunagar in Kathiawad.
Who acts: legend · What happens: strike, offer · To what, where: striking parallel, Bhaunagar
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parallel | det |
| 2 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 parallel | amod |
| 3 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Russian | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Russian | det |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parallel | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 former | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 former | det |
| 9 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Russian | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stories | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stories | det |
| 12 | Moravian | Moravian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stories | compound |
| 13 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 former | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 offered | aux:pass |
| 15 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 legend | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 legend | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 legend | det |
| 19 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 worship | case |
| 21 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 worship | compound |
| 22 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 legend | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 legend | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 legend | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Bhaunagar | case |
| 26 | Bhaunagar | Bhaunagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Kathiawad | case |
| 28 | Kathiawad | Kathiawad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | a legend of serpent worship | a striking parallel to the Russian | Bhaunagar | in Kathiawad | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=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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