Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 7
_ The devil in this story is the popular myth of the water-gods or sprites, elsewhere called the _vodyanóy_ or _vódyánik_.
Who acts: devil · What happens: be, call · To what, where: popular myth, vodyanóy · 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: who acts (devil), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 myth | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 myth | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 devil | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 myth | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 myth | det |
| 9 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 myth | amod |
| 10 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gods | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gods | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 15 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 myth | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sprites | cc |
| 17 | sprites | sprite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gods | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 19 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 20 called | advmod |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 myth | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 vodyanóy | det |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 vodyanóy | punct |
| 23 | vodyanóy | vodyanóy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 vódyánik | cc |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 vódyánik | punct |
| 27 | vódyánik | vódyánik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | conj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the devil in this story | the popular myth | of the water gods or sprites | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the vodyanóy | vódyánik conj; elsewhere property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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