Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 165
Ilyá Múromets is one of the heroes of the _Byliny_: his great feat is the slaying of the Nightingale Robber.
Who acts: Ilyá, great feat · What happens: be · To what, where: one, slaying
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 (Ilyá, great feat), 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 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | Múromets | Múromet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Ilyá | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heroes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heroes | det |
| 7 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Byliny | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Byliny | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Byliny | punct |
| 11 | Byliny | Byliny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heroes | nmod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 heroes | punct |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 slaying | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feat | amod |
| 16 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slaying | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 slaying | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 slaying | det |
| 19 | slaying | slaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Robber | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Robber | det |
| 22 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Robber | compound |
| 23 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 slaying | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ilyá | one | of the heroes of the Byliny | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Ilyá's great feat | the slaying | of the Nightingale Robber | 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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