Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 87

[448] Called _Lisun_, _Lisovik_, _Polisun_, &c. He answers to the _Lyeshy_ or wood-demon (_lyes_ = a forest) mentioned above, p. 212.

Who acts: c., wood demon · What happens: call, answer, mention · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (c., wood demon), 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	_	2 448	punct
2	448	448	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 448	punct
4	Called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 448	acl
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 Lisun	punct
6	Lisun	Lisun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Called	xcomp
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 Lisun	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Lisovik	punct
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Lisovik	punct
10	Lisovik	Lisovik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Lisun	conj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 Lisun	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 448	punct
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 Polisun	punct
14	Polisun	Polisun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 448	nmod:unmarked
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 448	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answers	punct
17	&	&	CCONJ	_	20 answers	cc
18	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answers	nsubj
19	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answers	nsubj
20	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 448	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 Lyeshy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Lyeshy	det
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 Lyeshy	punct
24	Lyeshy	Lyeshy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 answers	obl
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 Lyeshy	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 demon	cc
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 demon	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 wood	punct
29	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Lyeshy	conj
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 lyes	punct
31	_	_	ADP	_	32 lyes	case
32	lyes	lye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 demon	appos
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 lyes	punct
34	=	=	SYM	_	36 forest	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 forest	det
36	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lyes	conj
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 lyes	punct
38	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 demon	acl:relcl
39	above	above	ADV	_	38 mentioned	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 p.	punct
41	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Lyeshy	conj
42	212	212	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 p.	flat
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 448	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	call	participle			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	present	c.	to the Lyeshy or wood demon and p.	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to lyeshy=Co-Agent
3	mention speech: other	past	wood demon not said here	above property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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