Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 125
[466] The word by which the husband here designates his wife is _zakon_, which properly signifies (1) law, (2) marriage.
Who acts: husband, word, zakon · What happens: designate, be, signify · To what, where: wife, zakon, 1 law
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, word, zakon), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 466 | punct |
| 2 | 466 | 466 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 466 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 zakon | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 designates | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 husband | det |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 designates | nsubj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 husband | advmod |
| 11 | designates | designate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 designates | obj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 zakon | cop |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 zakon | punct |
| 16 | zakon | zakon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 466 | acl:relcl |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 zakon | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 signifies | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 signifies | nsubj |
| 20 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 21 signifies | advmod |
| 21 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 zakon | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 law | punct |
| 23 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 law | nummod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 1 | punct |
| 25 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 signifies | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 marriage | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 2 | punct |
| 28 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 marriage | nummod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 2 | punct |
| 30 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 law | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 466 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | designate | present | the husband | husband's wife | by the word | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the word | zakon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | signify | present | zakon | 1 law and 2 marriage | properly property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot law=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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