Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 67
Saint Nicholas is the worker of miracles; and Saint Elias has had some of the powers of the thundergod transferred to him.
Who acts: Saint Nicholas, Saint, some · What happens: be, have, transfer · To what, where: worker, Nicholas
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 (Saint Nicholas, Saint, some), 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 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nicholas | compound |
| 2 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 worker | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worker | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 worker | det |
| 5 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 miracles | case |
| 7 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 worker | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 10 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 11 | Elias | Elias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Saint | flat |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | aux |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 worker | parataxis |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 transferred | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 powers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 powers | det |
| 17 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 some | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thundergod | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thundergod | det |
| 20 | thundergod | thundergod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 powers | nmod |
| 21 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 transferred | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Saint Nicholas | the worker | of miracles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | Saint | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | transfer | past | some of the powers of the thundergod | Nicholas | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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