Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 73

_ The Kutúzovy are one of the most ancient of Russian families; this particular village from which they derive their name must be somewhere on the trade route of the Dniepr.

Who acts: Kutúzovy, families, particular village · What happens: be, derive, name · To what, where: one, name, particular village, trade route

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 (Kutúzovy, families, particular village), 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	_	3 Kutúzovy	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kutúzovy	det
3	Kutúzovy	Kutúzovy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ancient	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ancient	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 ancient	advmod
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 families	case
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 families	amod
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ancient	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 village	punct
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 village	det
15	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 village	amod
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 route	nsubj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 derive	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 derive	nsubj
20	derive	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 village	acl:relcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 derive	obj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 route	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 route	cop
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 route	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 route	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 route	det
28	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 route	compound
29	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Dniepr	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Dniepr	det
32	Dniepr	Dniepr	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 route	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Kutúzovy	one			tree rules
2	derive	present	families = family	families's name	this particular village		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from which=Material
3	is	must	this particular village		the trade route	of the Dniepr; somewhere property	tree rules
4	name		families = family				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 73