Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 13
The old Russian ballads give names and patronymics to their rivers such as the people use for themselves, e.g. Dněpr Slovútich Don Iványch.
Who acts: old Russian ballads, people · What happens: give, use · To what, where: names
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: who acts (old Russian ballads, people), 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 | 4 ballads | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ballads | amod |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ballads | amod |
| 4 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 patronymics | cc |
| 8 | patronymics | patronymic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 names | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rivers | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rivers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | obl |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 people | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | nsubj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 themselves | case |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 use | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 e.g. | punct |
| 20 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 16 use | obj |
| 21 | Dněpr | Dněpr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Don | compound |
| 22 | Slovútich | Slovútich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Dněpr | flat |
| 23 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 e.g. | flat |
| 24 | Iványch | Iványch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Don | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the old Russian ballads | names and patronymics | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present | the people | to ballads's rivers; for ballads = ballad | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent e.g.=Theme for themselves=Eventuality |
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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