Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 123
The Aspen tree is always associated in Russian folk-lore with magic and wizardry; it is also said that Judas hanged himself on this tree.
Who acts: Judas · What happens: associate, say, hange · To what, where: Aspen tree, Russian folk lore, tree, Judas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Judas), 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 tree | det |
| 2 | Aspen | Aspen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 associated | aux:pass |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 associated | advmod |
| 6 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lore | case |
| 8 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lore | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lore | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 associated | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 magic | case |
| 13 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lore | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wizardry | cc |
| 15 | wizardry | wizardry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lore | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux:pass |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 said | advmod |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 associated | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 hanged | mark |
| 22 | Judas | Judas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hanged | nsubj |
| 23 | hanged | hange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 hanged | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hanged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 associated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | associate | present · passive | the Aspen tree | Russian folk lore with magic and wizardry | always property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | tree | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hange | past | Judas | Judas | this tree | 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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