Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 119
_ In Russia St. Nicholas is the most popular miracle worker amongst all the saints.
Who acts: _ · What happens: be · To what, where: popular miracle worker
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 (_), 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 | 11 worker | nsubj |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Nicholas | case |
| 3 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nicholas | compound |
| 4 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worker | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 worker | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 popular | advmod |
| 9 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 worker | amod |
| 10 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worker | compound |
| 11 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 15 saints | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 saints | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saints | det |
| 15 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 worker | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 worker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ in Russia Nicholas St. | the popular miracle worker | amongst all saints | 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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