Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 16
There is also a town called Khvalýnsk on the Vólga in the province of Sarátov, above the city of Sarátov.
Who acts: town · What happens: be, call · To what, where: town, Vólga · 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 (town), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 town | acl |
| 7 | Khvalýnsk | Khvalýnsk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Vólga | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Vólga | det |
| 10 | Vólga | Vólga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 province | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 province | det |
| 13 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Sarátov | case |
| 15 | Sarátov | Sarátov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 province | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 city | punct |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Sarátov | case |
| 21 | Sarátov | Sarátov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 city | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a town | there | the city of Sarátov conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a town not said here | the Vólga | in the province of Sarátov; Khvalýnsk xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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