Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 14
The Vazúza is a short stream crossing the borders of the provinces of Tver and Smolensk, meeting a great bend of the Vólga at Zubtsóv (in the province of Tver).
Who acts: Vazúza, short stream · What happens: be, cross, meet · To what, where: short stream, borders, great bend
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 (Vazúza, short stream), 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 Vazúza | det |
| 2 | Vazúza | Vazúza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stream | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stream | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stream | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stream | amod |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stream | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 borders | det |
| 9 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crossing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 provinces | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 provinces | det |
| 12 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 borders | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Tver | case |
| 14 | Tver | Tver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 provinces | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Smolensk | cc |
| 16 | Smolensk | Smolensk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tver | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 meeting | punct |
| 18 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stream | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bend | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bend | amod |
| 21 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meeting | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Vólga | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Vólga | det |
| 24 | Vólga | Vólga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bend | nmod |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Zubtsóv | case |
| 26 | Zubtsóv | Zubtsóv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Vólga | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 province | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 province | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 province | det |
| 30 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Vólga | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Tver | case |
| 32 | Tver | Tver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 province | nmod |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 province | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Vazúza | a short stream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross | gerund | a short stream not said here | the borders of the provinces of Tver and Smolensk | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient | ||||
| 3 | meet | gerund | the Vazúza not said here | a great bend of the Vólga at Zubtsóv | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bend=Co-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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