Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 81
_ Mythical birds, the meaning of which is entirely unknown.
What happens: be · To what, where: Mythical birds
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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 birds | punct |
| 2 | Mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 meaning | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meaning | det |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 birds | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 unknown | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 unknown | cop |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 11 unknown | advmod |
| 11 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meaning | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of the meaning; entirely, unknown 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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