Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 109
It will be seen that the legend is cognate with magic wheels that revolve at great speed, or turn on wheels emitting flame and poison.
Who acts: legend, magic wheels, wheels · What happens: see, be, revolve, turn, emit · To what, where: episode, great speed, wheels, flame
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 (legend, magic wheels, wheels), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 cognate | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cognate | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cognate | cop |
| 9 | cognate | cognate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seen | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wheels | case |
| 11 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wheels | compound |
| 12 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cognate | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 revolve | nsubj |
| 14 | revolve | revolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wheels | acl:relcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 speed | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 speed | amod |
| 17 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 revolve | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 turn | cc |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 wheels | case |
| 22 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turn | obl |
| 23 | emitting | emit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 wheels | acl |
| 24 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 emitting | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 poison | cc |
| 26 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flame | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future · passive | episode | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the legend | with magic wheels; cognate property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | revolve | present | magic wheels | great speed | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive | wheels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on wheel=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | emit | gerund | wheels not said here | flame and poison | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source flame=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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