Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 18

Its territory embraces, roughly speaking, that vast plain which lies between the Carpathians, the watershed of the Dnieper, and the Sea of Azov, with Lemberg and Kiev for its chief intellectual centres.

Who acts: territory embraces, vast plain, Russian · What happens: speak, lie, embrace · To what, where: Carpathians · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (territory embraces, vast plain, Russian), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 embraces	nmod:poss
2	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embraces	compound
3	embraces	embrace	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 speaking	punct
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	6 speaking	advmod
6	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 embraces	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plain	punct
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 plain	det
9	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plain	amod
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embraces	appos
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lies	nsubj
12	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 plain	acl:relcl
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 Carpathians	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Carpathians	det
15	Carpathians	Carpathian	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 lies	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 watershed	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 watershed	det
18	watershed	watershed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Carpathians	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Dnieper	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Dnieper	det
21	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 watershed	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 centres	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 centres	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sea	det
25	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 centres	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Azov	case
27	Azov	Azov	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Sea	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Lemberg	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 Lemberg	case
30	Lemberg	Lemberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 centres	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Kiev	cc
32	Kiev	Kiev	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Lemberg	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 centres	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 centres	nmod:poss
35	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 centres	amod
36	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 centres	amod
37	centres	centre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 embraces	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 embraces	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund	Russian's territory embraces and Russian's chief intellectual centres not said here		roughly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	present	that vast plain	the Carpathians		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between carpathian=Location
3	embrace		Russian			nom embrace «act transitive»: poss=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: «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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