Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 192

_ Big billy-goats, the name given by the clean-shaved Ruthenians to their hairy neighbours the Russians.

What happens: give, shave · To what, where: name, hairy neighbours

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 goats	punct
2	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goats	amod
3	billy	billy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goats	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 billy	punct
5	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 name	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goats	appos
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 name	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	15 Ruthenians	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Ruthenians	det
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shaved	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 clean	punct
14	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Ruthenians	amod
15	Ruthenians	Ruthenian	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 given	obl:agent
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 neighbours	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neighbours	nmod:poss
18	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 neighbours	amod
19	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 given	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Russians	det
21	Russians	Russian	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 neighbours	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 goats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		the name not said here	Ruthenians's hairy neighbours and the Russians				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient
2	shave	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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