Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 26

_ Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the Kíev cycle; he derives his strength from mystical sources of Mother Earth, and his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber.

Who acts: _, great feat · What happens: be, derive · To what, where: one, strength, mystical sources, slaying

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 (_, great feat), 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	5 one	nsubj
2	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 _	flat
3	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 _	flat
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 heroes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heroes	det
8	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 cycle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cycle	det
11	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cycle	compound
12	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heroes	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 derives	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 derives	nsubj
15	derives	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 strength	nmod:poss
17	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 derives	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 sources	case
19	mystical	mystical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sources	amod
20	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 derives	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Mother	case
22	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sources	nmod
23	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mother	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slaying	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 slaying	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feat	nmod:poss
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feat	amod
28	feat	feat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slaying	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 slaying	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 slaying	det
31	slaying	slaying	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 derives	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 Robber	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Robber	det
34	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Robber	compound
35	Robber	Robber	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 slaying	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	_	one		of the heroes of the Kíev cycle	tree rules
2	derive	present	_	_'s strength	mystical sources of Mother		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent strength=Result from source=Material
3	is a	present	_'s great feat	the slaying		of the Nightingale Robber	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 26