Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 23
There is boundless freedom of intercourse between mortals and immortals, between mankind and the brute creation, and, although there are certain conventional rules which must always be observed, they are not those which are enforced by any people known to anthropologists.
Who acts: boundless freedom, certain conventional rules, people · What happens: be, observe, not enforce, know · To what, where: certain conventional rules, rules, people
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 (boundless freedom, certain conventional rules, people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 freedom | amod |
| 4 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 intercourse | case |
| 6 | intercourse | intercourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 freedom | nmod |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 mortals | case |
| 8 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 intercourse | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 immortals | cc |
| 10 | immortals | immortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mortals | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mankind | punct |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 mankind | case |
| 13 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mortals | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 creation | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 creation | det |
| 16 | brute | brute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creation | amod |
| 17 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mankind | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 enforced | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 enforced | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 23 are | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 are | expl |
| 23 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 enforced | advcl |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rules | amod |
| 25 | conventional | conventional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rules | amod |
| 26 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 are | nsubj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 observed | aux |
| 29 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 observed | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 observed | aux:pass |
| 31 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 rules | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 are | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 enforced | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 enforced | aux:pass |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 enforced | advmod |
| 36 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 enforced | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 enforced | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 enforced | aux:pass |
| 39 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 people | case |
| 41 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 people | det |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 enforced | obl |
| 43 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 people | acl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 anthropologists | case |
| 45 | anthropologists | anthropologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 known | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | boundless freedom of intercourse between mortals and immortals and mankind and the brute creation | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | does | present | certain conventional rules | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | observe | must · passive | certain conventional rules | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not enforce | present · passive | any people | rules = rule | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | participle | any people not said here | to anthropologists | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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