Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 55

_Buyán_ is a kind of fairy hill like the _Tír n’an óg_ of the Irish folk-tales, the land of youth, and cannot probably be assigned to any physical geography.

Who acts: Buyán, kind · What happens: be, óg, not assign · To what, where: kind, Irish folk tales, physical geography

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 (Buyán, kind), 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	_	2 Buyán	punct
2	Buyán	Buyán	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Buyán	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hill	compound
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 Tír	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tír	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 Tír	punct
13	Tír	Tír	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hill	appos
14	n’an	n'an	X	Foreign=Yes	13 Tír	dep
15	óg	óg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kind	acl
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 tales	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 tales	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tales	det
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tales	amod
20	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tales	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 folk	punct
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 óg	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 land	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tales	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 youth	case
27	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 land	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 assigned	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 assigned	cc
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 assigned	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 assigned	advmod
32	probably	probably	ADV	_	34 assigned	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 assigned	aux:pass
34	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 kind	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 geography	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 geography	det
37	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 geography	amod
38	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 assigned	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Buyán	a kind	of fairy hill	tree rules
2	óg	gerund	a kind not said here	the Irish folk tales		tree rules
3	not assign	can · passive			to any physical geography goal; probably property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: to geography=Goal

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 55