Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 118
Goryáyev’s dictionary states that the original meaning was a company-commander of the Tatars.
Who acts: dictionary states · What happens: be · To what, where: company commander
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 (dictionary states), 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 | Goryáyev | Goryáyev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 states | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Goryáyev | case |
| 3 | dictionary | dictionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 states | compound |
| 4 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 commander | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 commander | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meaning | det |
| 7 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meaning | amod |
| 8 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 commander | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 commander | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 commander | det |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 commander | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 company | punct |
| 13 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Tatars | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tatars | det |
| 16 | Tatars | Tatar | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 commander | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 commander | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Goryáyev's dictionary states | a company commander | of the Tatars; the original meaning nsubj | 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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