Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 55
Historically, his ancestry is the dread Tatar, in which figure all the previous Turanian tribes that overran medieval Russia have been confounded.
Who acts: ancestry, dread · What happens: be, figure, confound · To what, where: dread, overran medieval Russia
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 (ancestry, dread), 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 | Historically | historically | ADV | _ | 7 dread | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Historically | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ancestry | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ancestry | ancestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dread | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dread | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dread | det |
| 7 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Tatar | Tatar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dread | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 figure | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 figure | nsubj |
| 12 | figure | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dread | parataxis |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tribes | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tribes | det |
| 15 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tribes | amod |
| 16 | Turanian | turanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tribes | amod |
| 17 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 figure | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 confounded | obj |
| 19 | overran | overran | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Russia | amod |
| 20 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Russia | amod |
| 21 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 confounded | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 confounded | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 confounded | aux:pass |
| 24 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tribes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Koshchéy's ancestry | the dread | Tatar appos; historically property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | figure | present | the dread | all previous Turanian tribes ccomp | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | confound | present · perfect · passive | overran medieval Russia | all previous Turanian tribes obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |
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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