Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 54
The great baleful magician is Koshchéy the Deathless, whose soul, in some stories, is contained in an egg far away, fearsomely guarded.
Who acts: great baleful magician · What happens: be, contain, guard · To what, where: Koshchéy, egg
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 (great baleful magician), 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 | 4 magician | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 magician | amod |
| 3 | baleful | baleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 magician | amod |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Koshchéy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Koshchéy | cop |
| 6 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Deathless | det |
| 8 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Koshchéy | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soul | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 soul | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Deathless | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stories | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 stories | det |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 soul | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Koshchéy | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 contained | aux:pass |
| 18 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 egg | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 egg | det |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 contained | obl |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 contained | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 guarded | punct |
| 25 | fearsomely | fearsomely | ADV | _ | 26 guarded | advmod |
| 26 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 contained | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the great baleful magician | Koshchéy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | present · passive | Koshchéy | a egg | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in egg=Location | |||
| 3 | guard | participle | fearsomely property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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: «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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