Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 125
_ An ancient city of Russia on the Dniepr, a little higher up than Kíev.
To what, where: ancient city
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: 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 | _ | 4 city | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Russia | case |
| 6 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Dniepr | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dniepr | det |
| 9 | Dniepr | Dniepr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 higher | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 Dniepr | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 higher | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 Kíev | case |
| 16 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 up | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 city | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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