Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 73
They contain the usual incidents of transformations, magic, witches, the valorous youngest son, the beautiful princess wronged by the evil stepmother,—in fact, the common Aryan stock, all tinged with the characteristic Slav temperament.
Who acts: satires, common Aryan stock · What happens: contain, wrong, ting · To what, where: usual incidents, beautiful princess, all
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 (satires, common Aryan stock), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 contain | nsubj |
| 2 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 incidents | det |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 incidents | amod |
| 5 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contain | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 transformations | case |
| 7 | transformations | transformation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 incidents | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 magic | punct |
| 9 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 transformations | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 witches | punct |
| 11 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 transformations | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 son | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 14 | valorous | valorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 son | amod |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 incidents | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 princess | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | appos |
| 21 | wronged | wrong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 princess | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 stepmother | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stepmother | det |
| 24 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stepmother | amod |
| 25 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wronged | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fact | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 fact | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 fact | case |
| 29 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 incidents | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stock | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stock | det |
| 32 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stock | amod |
| 33 | Aryan | Aryan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stock | amod |
| 34 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fact | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tinged | punct |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 tinged | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | tinged | ting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 stock | acl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 characteristic | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 characteristic | det |
| 40 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tinged | obl |
| 41 | Slav | Slav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 characteristic | appos |
| 42 | temperament | temperament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 characteristic | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | satires = satire | the usual incidents of transformations and magic and witches and the valorous youngest son and fact the common Aryan stock | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrong | participle | the beautiful princess not said here | by the evil stepmother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ting | participle · passive | the common Aryan stock not said here | all | with the characteristic and temperament | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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