Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 17
Ruthenian is a language intermediate between Russian and Polish, but quite independent of both.
Who acts: Ruthenian · What happens: be · To what, where: language intermediate
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ruthenian), 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 | Ruthenian | Ruthenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 intermediate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 intermediate | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 intermediate | det |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 intermediate | compound |
| 5 | intermediate | intermediate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 Russian | case |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 intermediate | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Polish | cc |
| 9 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Russian | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 independent | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 independent | cc |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 independent | advmod |
| 13 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 intermediate | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 both | case |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 independent | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 intermediate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ruthenian | a language intermediate | between Russian | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Ruthenian not said here | of both | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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