Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 127
_ As, in German folk-lore, the legends of Christ walking the earth with His disciples are very frequent and characteristic.
Who acts: legends, _ · What happens: walk, be · To what, where: earth
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 (legends, _), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 frequent | nsubj |
| 2 | As | As | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lore | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lore | case |
| 5 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lore | amod |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 legends | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 legends | det |
| 11 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lore | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Christ | case |
| 13 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 legends | nmod |
| 14 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 legends | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walking | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 disciples | case |
| 18 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 disciples | nmod:poss |
| 19 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walking | obl |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 frequent | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 frequent | advmod |
| 22 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 characteristic | cc |
| 24 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 frequent | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | the legends of Christ not said here | the earth | with _'s disciples | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | present | _ | frequent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | _ not said here | 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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