Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 103
His principal heroic episode is told in the prose ballad in this book entitled ‘Alyósha Popóvich.’
What happens: tell, entitle · To what, where: principal heroic episode, Alyósha, prose ballad · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 episode | nmod:poss |
| 2 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 episode | amod |
| 3 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 episode | amod |
| 4 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ballad | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ballad | det |
| 9 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ballad | compound |
| 10 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entitled | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 book | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ballad | nmod |
| 14 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | ccomp |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Alyósha | punct |
| 16 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 entitled | obj |
| 17 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Alyósha | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Vladímir's principal heroic episode | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | entitle | past | Alyósha | the prose ballad in this book | tree rules |
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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