Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 117
The names of these peoples were the Gogs and Magogs.
Who acts: names · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Gogs, peoples
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names), 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 | 2 names | det |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Gogs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 peoples | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 peoples | det |
| 5 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 names | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Gogs | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gogs | det |
| 8 | Gogs | Gogs | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Magogs | cc |
| 10 | Magogs | Magogs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Gogs | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gogs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the names of this peoples | the Gogs and Magogs | Magogs conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | name | this peoples | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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