Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 110
The nearest analogy quoted is the whirling rampart in the _Mael Duinn_, but the Russian legend is evidently related and not derived.
Who acts: nearest analogy, Russian legend · What happens: quote, whirl, be, not derive · To what, where: nearest analogy, whirling rampart, Mael
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 (nearest analogy, Russian legend), 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 | 3 analogy | det |
| 2 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 analogy | amod |
| 3 | analogy | analogy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rampart | nsubj |
| 4 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 analogy | acl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rampart | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rampart | det |
| 7 | whirling | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 rampart | amod |
| 8 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Mael | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mael | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mael | punct |
| 12 | Mael | Mael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rampart | nmod |
| 13 | Duinn | Duinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mael | flat |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mael | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 related | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 related | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 legend | det |
| 18 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 legend | amod |
| 19 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 related | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 related | cop |
| 21 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 22 related | advmod |
| 22 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Mael | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 derived | cc |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 derived | advmod |
| 25 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 related | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rampart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | participle | the nearest analogy not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | whirl | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the nearest analogy | the whirling rampart | the Mael | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | the Russian legend | evidently, related property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not derive | participle | the Russian legend not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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