Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 26
Snake, the mythical, his appearance, 78; story of Ivan Popyalof, 79; story of the Water Snake, 126; Snake Husbands, 129; legend about the Common Snake, 334; likeness between Snakes and Demons, 380
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mythical | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mythical | det |
| 4 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Snake | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 appearance | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snake | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 78 | punct |
| 9 | 78 | 78 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 appearance | appos |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snake | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ivan | case |
| 13 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod |
| 14 | Popyalof | Popyalof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ivan | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 79 | punct |
| 16 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Ivan | appos |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 story | punct |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snake | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Snake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Snake | det |
| 21 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Snake | compound |
| 22 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 story | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 126 | punct |
| 24 | 126 | 126 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Snake | appos |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 Husbands | punct |
| 26 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Husbands | compound |
| 27 | Husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Snake | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 129 | punct |
| 29 | 129 | 129 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Husbands | appos |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 legend | punct |
| 31 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snake | conj |
| 32 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 Snake | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Snake | det |
| 34 | Common | Common | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Snake | compound |
| 35 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 legend | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 334 | punct |
| 37 | 334 | 334 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 legend | appos |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 likeness | punct |
| 39 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snake | conj |
| 40 | between | between | ADP | _ | 41 Snakes | case |
| 41 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 likeness | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Demons | cc |
| 43 | Demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 Snakes | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 380 | punct |
| 45 | 380 | 380 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Snake | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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