Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 58
Considering the intimate association of the mysterious stone _Alátyr_ (probably meaning amber) with Buyán: and the fact that _Buyán_ is a Slav translation of the Old Slav name Ruyán, the wind-swept isle [cf.
Who acts: Buyán · What happens: consider, mean, be, sweep · To what, where: intimate association, amber, Slav translation
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), 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 | Considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 association | det |
| 3 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 association | amod |
| 4 | association | association | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Considering | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 association | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Alátyr | punct |
| 10 | Alátyr | Alátyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Considering | vocative |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 meaning | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 meaning | punct |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 14 meaning | advmod |
| 14 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Considering | advcl |
| 15 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meaning | obj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 amber | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Buyán | case |
| 18 | Buyán | Buyán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 meaning | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Buyán | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fact | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fact | det |
| 22 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Buyán | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 translation | mark |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Buyán | punct |
| 25 | Buyán | Buyán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 translation | nsubj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Buyán | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 translation | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 translation | det |
| 29 | Slav | Slav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 translation | compound |
| 30 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fact | acl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 name | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 name | det |
| 33 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 name | amod |
| 34 | Slav | Slav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 name | compound |
| 35 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 translation | nmod |
| 36 | Ruyán | Ruyán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 name | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 isle | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 isle | det |
| 39 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 swept | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 wind | punct |
| 41 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 isle | amod |
| 42 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Ruyán | appos |
| 43 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 44 cf | punct |
| 44 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 isle | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Considering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | gerund | the intimate association of the mysterious stone | Alátyr vocative | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent association=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | amber | with Buyán and the fact; probably property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amber=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Buyán | a Slav translation | of the Old Slav name | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sweep | participle | wind compound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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