Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 113
_The Sister of the Sun._ The Russian commentator in the compilation, from which these stories are drawn, states that this is the expression for the dawn.
Who acts: this · What happens: draw, be · To what, where: stories, Russian commentator, expression, Sister
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 (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 | _ | 3 Sister | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sister | det |
| 3 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Sun. | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun. | det |
| 6 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sister | nmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 commentator | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 commentator | det |
| 9 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 commentator | amod |
| 10 | commentator | commentator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sister | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 compilation | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 compilation | det |
| 13 | compilation | compilation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commentator | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawn | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 drawn | obl |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 stories | det |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 drawn | aux:pass |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 commentator | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 states | punct |
| 22 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drawn | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 expression | mark |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 expression | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 expression | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 expression | det |
| 27 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawn | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 dawn | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dawn | det |
| 30 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 expression | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present · passive | this stories | the Russian commentator in the compilation | states obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from which=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this | the expression | dawn | 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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