Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 65
For an interesting parallel from the Neilgherry Hills, see Gover's "Folk-Songs of Southern India," pp.
Who acts: you, Southern India · What happens: see, sing · To what, where: Folk Songs
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 (you, Southern India), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 parallel | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parallel | det |
| 3 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parallel | amod |
| 4 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hills | det |
| 7 | Neilgherry | Neilgherry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hills | compound |
| 8 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 parallel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 parallel | punct |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Gover | Gover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Songs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Gover | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Songs | punct |
| 14 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Songs | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Folk | punct |
| 16 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 India | case |
| 18 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 India | amod |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Songs | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pp | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pp | punct |
| 22 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Songs | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | Gover's Folk Songs of Southern India and pp | for a interesting parallel from the Neilgherry Hills | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sing in a quote | Southern India | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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