Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 27
The Russian people have handed down three categories of records.
Who acts: Russian people · What happens: hand down · To what, where: three categories
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | aux |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 handed | compound:prt |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 categories | nummod |
| 8 | categories | category | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 records | case |
| 10 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 categories | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand down | present · perfect | the Russian people | three categories of records | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent category=Theme |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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