Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 105
Filuyán is a fabulous city found in the cantations and mystical rites of the Russian peasants.
Who acts: Filuyán · What happens: be, find · To what, where: fabulous city, cantations
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: who acts (Filuyán), 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 | Filuyán | Filuyán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 city | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 city | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 4 | fabulous | fabulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 city | amod |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 city | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cantations | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cantations | det |
| 9 | cantations | cantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rites | cc |
| 11 | mystical | mystical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rites | amod |
| 12 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cantations | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 peasants | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 peasants | det |
| 15 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 peasants | amod |
| 16 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rites | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Filuyán | a fabulous city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | participle | a fabulous city not said here | the cantations and mystical rites of the Russian peasants | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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