Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 57
The whole of the Pomeranian coast from Lübeck to the Memel was, prior to its conquest by the Saxons and the Brandenburgers, a Slavonic district, and the Isle of Rügen, in especial, the promontory of Arcona, a seat of the most highly developed Slavonic pagan ritual: Saxo Grammaticus has conserved us full details.
Who acts: Saxo · What happens: be, develop, conserve · To what, where: us
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 (Saxo), 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 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coast | det |
| 5 | Pomeranian | Pomeranian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coast | compound |
| 6 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Lübeck | case |
| 8 | Lübeck | Lübeck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coast | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Memel | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Memel | det |
| 11 | Memel | Memel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lübeck | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whole | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 conquest | punct |
| 14 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 17 conquest | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 prior | fixed |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 conquest | nmod:poss |
| 17 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Saxons | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Saxons | det |
| 20 | Saxons | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 conquest | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Brandenburgers | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Brandenburgers | det |
| 23 | Brandenburgers | brandenburger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Saxons | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 district | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 district | det |
| 26 | Slavonic | Slavonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 district | compound |
| 27 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Brandenburgers | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Isle | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Isle | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Isle | det |
| 31 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 whole | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Rügen | case |
| 33 | Rügen | Rügen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Isle | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 especial | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 especial | case |
| 36 | especial | especial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Isle | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 promontory | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 promontory | det |
| 39 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Isle | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Arcona | case |
| 41 | Arcona | Arcona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 promontory | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 seat | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 seat | det |
| 44 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Isle | appos |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 details | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 details | det |
| 47 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 48 highly | advmod |
| 48 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 49 developed | advmod |
| 49 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 details | amod |
| 50 | Slavonic | Slavonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 developed | xcomp |
| 51 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 ritual | amod |
| 52 | ritual | ritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 Slavonic | appos |
| 53 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 57 conserved | punct |
| 54 | Saxo | Saxo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 conserved | nsubj |
| 55 | Grammaticus | Grammaticus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Saxo | flat |
| 56 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 conserved | aux |
| 57 | conserved | conserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 details | amod |
| 58 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 conserved | iobj |
| 59 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 details | amod |
| 60 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 seat | nmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of the Pomeranian coast from Lübeck to the Memel; Memel's conquest by the Saxons and the Brandenburgers a Slavonic district conj; the Isle of Rügen parataxis; whole property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | develop | participle | Slavonic xcomp; highly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | conserve | present · perfect | Saxo | us | 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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