Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 16

We often hear it said, that from the songs and stories of a country we may learn much about the inner life of its people, inasmuch as popular utterances of this kind always bear the stamp of the national character, offer a reflex of the national mind.

Who acts: We, present · What happens: hear, say, learn, bear, offer · To what, where: that, songs, stamp, reflex · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, present), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 hear	advmod
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 said	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 songs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 songs	det
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stories	cc
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 songs	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 country	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 country	det
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stories	nmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 learn	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 learn	aux
18	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 songs	acl:relcl
19	much	much	ADV	_	18 learn	advmod
20	about	about	ADP	_	23 life	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 life	det
22	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 life	amod
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 learn	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 people	nmod:poss
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 life	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 inasmuch	punct
28	inasmuch	inasmuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 people	conj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 utterances	case
30	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 utterances	amod
31	utterances	utterance	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bear	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 kind	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 kind	det
34	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bear	obl
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 bear	advmod
36	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 learn	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stamp	det
38	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bear	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 character	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 character	det
41	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 character	amod
42	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stamp	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 offer	punct
44	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 bear	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 reflex	det
46	reflex	reflex	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 offer	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 mind	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mind	det
49	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 mind	amod
50	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 reflex	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	We			often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	present	that	the songs and stories of a country		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	learn	may	we	the songs and stories of a country not said here		about the inner life of present's people and inasmuch	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
4	bear	infinitive	we not said here	the stamp of the national character		as popular utterances; of this kind; always property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stamp=Patient
5	offer	infinitive	we not said here	a reflex of the national mind			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent reflex=Theme

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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