Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 166
This tale may be eponymous of geography; Svyatogór (_Svyáty Góry_, Sacred Mountains) Múrom is on the river Oka, in the Province of Vladímir, one of the oldest cities in Russia; the village of Karachárovo is not far off.
Who acts: tale, Múrom, village · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: Svyatogór Sacred Mountains, river
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 (tale, Múrom, village), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eponymous | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eponymous | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eponymous | cop |
| 5 | eponymous | eponymous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 geography | case |
| 7 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eponymous | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mountains | punct |
| 9 | Svyatogór | Svyatogór | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mountains | compound |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Svyáty | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Svyáty | punct |
| 12 | Svyáty | Svyáty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Svyatogór | conj |
| 13 | Góry | Góry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Svyáty | flat |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Svyatogór | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mountains | punct |
| 16 | Sacred | Sacred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mountains | compound |
| 17 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 eponymous | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mountains | punct |
| 19 | Múrom | Múrom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 river | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 river | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Mountains | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Oka | Oka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 river | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Province | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Province | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Province | det |
| 28 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 river | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Vladímir | case |
| 30 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Province | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 one | punct |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 river | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cities | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cities | det |
| 35 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 cities | amod |
| 36 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 one | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Russia | case |
| 38 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 cities | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 off | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 village | det |
| 41 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 off | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Karachárovo | case |
| 43 | Karachárovo | Karachárovo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 village | nmod |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 off | cop |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 off | advmod |
| 46 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 off | advmod |
| 47 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 eponymous | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eponymous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | this tale | of geography; Svyatogór Sacred Mountains obl; eponymous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Múrom | Svyatogór Sacred Mountains not said here | the river and the Province of Vladímir | Oka appos; the Province of Vladímir conj; one of the oldest cities in Russia conj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | not is | present | the village of Karachárovo | far, off property | 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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