Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 122
_ Bryánsk in the Province of Orél contains wonderful woods which were in ancient times impenetrable, and became the legendary home of magic, and of weird happenings.
Who acts: Bryánsk, wonderful woods · What happens: contain, be, become · To what, where: wonderful woods, legendary home
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 (Bryánsk, wonderful woods), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bryánsk | punct |
| 2 | Bryánsk | Bryánsk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 contains | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Province | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Province | det |
| 5 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bryánsk | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Orél | case |
| 7 | Orél | Orél | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Province | nmod |
| 8 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woods | amod |
| 10 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 contains | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 impenetrable | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 impenetrable | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 times | case |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 impenetrable | obl |
| 16 | impenetrable | impenetrable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woods | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 contains | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 home | det |
| 21 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 home | amod |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 magic | case |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 home | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 happenings | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 happenings | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 happenings | case |
| 28 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 happenings | amod |
| 29 | happenings | happening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 became | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Bryánsk in the Province of Orél | wonderful woods | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | wonderful woods | time | impenetrable property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | become | past | the legendary home of magic | of weird happenings | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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