Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 14
On the questions to which these two conflicting hypotheses give rise we will not now dwell.
Who acts: two conflicting hypotheses, we · What happens: conflict, give, not dwell · To what, where: rise, questions
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 (two conflicting hypotheses, we), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 questions | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 questions | det |
| 3 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 give | obl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 hypotheses | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hypotheses | nummod |
| 8 | conflicting | conflict | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hypotheses | amod |
| 9 | hypotheses | hypothesis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 dwell | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 dwell | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 dwell | advmod |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 dwell | advmod |
| 16 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rise | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conflict | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | give | present | this two conflicting hypotheses | rise | the questions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent rise=Theme on question=Asset to which=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not dwell | future | we | rise not said here | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rise=Location |
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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