Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 100
_ For the episodes in this story of the kingdom turned to stone there seems strong evidence of adaptation or loan from the Arabian Nights.
Who acts: episodes · What happens: turn, seem, evidence · To what, where: stone, strong evidence, adaptation
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (episodes), 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 | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 episodes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 episodes | det |
| 4 | episodes | episode | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 episodes | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seems | csubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 turned | advmod |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 evidence | amod |
| 17 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seems | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 adaptation | case |
| 19 | adaptation | adaptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 evidence | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 loan | cc |
| 21 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 adaptation | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Nights | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Nights | det |
| 24 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Nights | amod |
| 25 | Nights | Night | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 loan | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the episodes in this story of the kingdom | stone; there | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | strong evidence of adaptation or loan from the Arabian Nights | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme evidence=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | evidence | adaptation or loan from the Arabian Nights | nom evidence «cognition 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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