Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 227
A great forest in Central Russia, once impenetrable and always legendary.
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: 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 forest | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forest | amod |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 impenetrable | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Russia | case |
| 5 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Russia | flat |
| 6 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forest | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 impenetrable | punct |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 impenetrable | advmod |
| 9 | impenetrable | impenetrable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 legendary | cc |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 legendary | advmod |
| 12 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 impenetrable | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 impenetrable | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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