Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 17
This particular story is probably a poetization of a geographical fact, but in all the Russian folk-lore the river-gods play a very great part.
Who acts: particular story, river gods · What happens: be, play · To what, where: poetization, great part
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 (particular story, river gods), 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 | 3 story | det |
| 2 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poetization | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 poetization | cop |
| 5 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 poetization | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 poetization | det |
| 7 | poetization | poetization | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fact | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fact | det |
| 10 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fact | amod |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poetization | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lore | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 lore | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lore | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 lore | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lore | det |
| 17 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lore | amod |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lore | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 folk | punct |
| 20 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poetization | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gods | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gods | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 river | punct |
| 24 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 play | nsubj |
| 25 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lore | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 part | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 great | advmod |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 part | amod |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 play | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 poetization | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this particular story | a poetization but all Russian folk lore | of a geographical fact; all Russian folk lore conj; probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play | present | the river gods | a great part | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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