Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 15
The Sea of Khvalýnsk is the Caspian, so called from an ancient people (the Khvalísi) of the eleventh and tenth centuries, who lived at the mouth of the Vólga in the Caspian.
Who acts: Sea, eleventh · What happens: be, call, live · To what, where: Caspian, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sea, eleventh), 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 Sea | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Caspian | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Khvalýnsk | case |
| 4 | Khvalýnsk | Khvalýnsk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sea | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Caspian | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caspian | det |
| 7 | Caspian | Caspian | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Caspian | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Khvalísi | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Khvalísi | det |
| 17 | Khvalísi | Khvalísi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 people | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Khvalísi | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 eleventh | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eleventh | det |
| 21 | eleventh | eleventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 centuries | cc |
| 23 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 centuries | amod |
| 24 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eleventh | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 eleventh | acl:relcl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 mouth | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mouth | det |
| 30 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Vólga | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Vólga | det |
| 33 | Vólga | Vólga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 mouth | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Caspian | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Caspian | det |
| 36 | Caspian | Caspian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Vólga | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Caspian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sea of Khvalýnsk | the Caspian | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the Caspian not said here | from a ancient people of the eleventh and tenth centuries | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from people=Source | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the eleventh and tenth centuries | the mouth of the Vólga in the Caspian | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mouth=Location |
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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