Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 59
The semi-sacred legends of the days when Christ and his Apostles walked the earth, superficially may be compared with Grimm’s stories.
Who acts: semi-sacred legends · What happens: walk, compare · To what, where: earth
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 (semi-sacred legends), 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 legends | det |
| 2 | semi-sacred | semi-sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legends | amod |
| 3 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legends | nmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 walked | advmod |
| 8 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Apostles | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Apostles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Apostles | apostle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Christ | conj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 compared | punct |
| 16 | superficially | superficially | ADV | _ | 19 compared | advmod |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 compared | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 compared | aux:pass |
| 19 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 walked | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 stories | case |
| 21 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stories | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Grimm | case |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 compared | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the semi-sacred legends of the days | the earth | Christ and dread's Apostles nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | compare | may · passive | the semi-sacred legends of the days not said here | with Grimm's stories; superficially property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with story=Co-Patient |
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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