Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 146
_ This is a prose version of a ballad and contains a very full account of this legend.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, contain, account · To what, where: prose version, full account, legend
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 (This), 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 | _ | 6 version | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 version | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 version | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 version | det |
| 5 | prose | prose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 version | amod |
| 6 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ballad | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ballad | det |
| 9 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 version | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 contains | cc |
| 11 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 version | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 account | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 full | advmod |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 account | amod |
| 15 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 legend | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 legend | det |
| 18 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 account | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 version | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a prose version | of a ballad | tree rules | |||
| 2 | contain | present | This not said here | a full account of this legend | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Theme | ||||
| 3 | account | this legend | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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