Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 11

Nor is it less difficult, when dealing with the stories of any one country in particular, to settle which may be looked upon as its own property, and which ought to be considered as borrowed and adapted.

Who acts: Nor · What happens: be, deal, settle, look, consider, borrow

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 difficult	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 difficult	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 difficult	expl
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 difficult	advmod
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dealing	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dealing	advmod
8	dealing	deal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 difficult	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stories	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stories	det
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dealing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 country	det
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 country	nummod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stories	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 particular	case
17	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 settle	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 settle	mark
20	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 dealing	parataxis
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 looked	nsubj:pass
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 looked	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 looked	aux:pass
24	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 settle	ccomp
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 property	case
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 property	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 property	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 property	amod
29	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 considered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 considered	cc
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 considered	nsubj:pass
33	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 considered	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	36 considered	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 considered	aux:pass
36	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 difficult	conj
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 borrowed	mark
38	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 considered	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 adapted	cc
40	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 borrowed	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nor	difficult, less property	tree rules
2	deal	gerund	Nor not said here	with the stories of any one country in particular	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with story=Theme
3	settle	to-infinitive			tree rules
4	look	may · passive		upon period's own property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
5	consider	ought · passive			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
6	borrow	participle			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	adapt	participle			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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