Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 19
The crow is equally common, but is generally used as a malign being.
Who acts: crow · What happens: be, use
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 (crow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crow | det |
| 2 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 common | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 common | cop |
| 4 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 5 common | advmod |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 used | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 10 used | advmod |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 common | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 malign | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 malign | det |
| 13 | malign | malign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 used | xcomp |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 malign | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the crow | common, equally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | the crow not said here | generally, malign property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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