Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 144
In this story the Russian of the words sung by the piper is also in Russian ballad metre.
What happens: sing, be · To what, where: words, Russian ballad metre
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 metre | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Russian | det |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 story | nmod |
| 9 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 words | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 piper | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 piper | det |
| 12 | piper | piper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sung | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 metre | cop |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 metre | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 metre | case |
| 16 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 metre | amod |
| 17 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 metre | compound |
| 18 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 metre | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | participle | the words not said here | by the piper | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by piper=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Russian ballad metre | in this story of the words | 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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