Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 100
_ A city in the Vítebsk province, bordering on Poland.
What happens: border · To what, where: Poland, city
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 city | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 province | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 province | det |
| 6 | Vítebsk | Vítebsk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 province | compound |
| 7 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 city | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bordering | punct |
| 9 | bordering | border | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 city | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Poland | case |
| 11 | Poland | Poland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bordering | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | border | gerund | Poland | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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