Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 5
Like the Lorelei, she is said to sit on the rocks and draw sailors down into the depths, but her more human characteristics are stated in this story.
What happens: say, sit, draw down, state · To what, where: Germany, rocks, sailors, depths, human characteristics, story · 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: 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 Lorelei | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lorelei | det |
| 3 | Lorelei | Lorelei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Lorelei | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sit | mark |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sit | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 draw | cc |
| 14 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sit | conj |
| 15 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 draw | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 draw | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 depths | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 depths | det |
| 19 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 draw | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stated | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 stated | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 characteristics | nmod:poss |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 human | advmod |
| 24 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 characteristics | amod |
| 25 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 stated | aux:pass |
| 27 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 story | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 story | det |
| 30 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stated | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Germany | like the Lorelei | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive | the rocks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | |||||
| 3 | draw down | infinitive | sailors | into the depths result; down property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sailor=Patient into depth=Result | ||||
| 4 | state speech: other | present · passive | Germany's human characteristics | this story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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