Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 120
In the story of St. Nicholas and St. Elias his beneficent character is clearly shown.
What happens: show · To what, where: beneficent character
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: 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nicholas | case |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Elias | cc |
| 8 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Elias | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Elias | Elias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Nicholas | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 character | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beneficent | beneficent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 character | amod |
| 12 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 shown | aux:pass |
| 14 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 15 shown | advmod |
| 15 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | St.'s beneficent character | in the story of Nicholas St. and Elias St.; clearly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in story=Topic |
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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