Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 129
The seven-headed monster, Ídolishche, was invading his land and demanding his daughter as his wife.
Who acts: headed monster · What happens: head, invade, demand · To what, where: land, daughter
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headed monster), 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 | 5 monster | det |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 headed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 seven | punct |
| 4 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 monster | amod |
| 5 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invading | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ídolishche | punct |
| 7 | Ídolishche | Ídolishche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 monster | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monster | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 invading | aux |
| 10 | invading | invade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 land | nmod:poss |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invading | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 demanding | cc |
| 14 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 invading | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demanding | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demanding | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 invading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | participle | seven compound | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | invade | past · progressive | the headed monster | monster's land | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | gerund | the headed monster not said here | monster's daughter | as monster's wife | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme daughter=Precondition |
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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