Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 102
He is always given the uncomplimentary _soubriquet_ of the ‘Mocker of Women.’
What happens: give · To what, where: Vladímir
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 given | advmod |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soubriquet | det |
| 6 | uncomplimentary | uncomplimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soubriquet | amod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 uncomplimentary | punct |
| 8 | soubriquet | soubriquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Mocker | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Mocker | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mocker | det |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Mocker | punct |
| 13 | Mocker | Mocker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 soubriquet | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Women | case |
| 15 | Women | Women | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mocker | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | Vladímir | the uncomplimentary soubriquet of the Mocker of Women obj; always property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient soubriquet=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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