Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 151
A _sazhén_ is seven feet.
Who acts: _ sazhén · What happens: be · To what, where: seven feet
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 (_ sazhén), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sazhén | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sazhén | amod |
| 3 | sazhén | sazhén | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feet | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 sazhén | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feet | cop |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a _ sazhén | seven feet | tree rules |
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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