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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

explamodnsubjcasenmodcasenmodccconjpunctcaseconjccdetamodconjpunctccpunctmarkexpladvclamodamodnsubjnsubj:passauxadvmodaux:passacl:relclpunctnsubjaux:passadvmodnsubj:passnsubj:passaux:passconjcasedetoblaclcaseoblpunctrootTherePRONisVERBboundlessADJfreedomNOUNofADPintercourseNOUNbetweenADPmortalsNOUNandCCONJimmortalsNOUN,PUNCTbetweenADPmankindNOUNandCCONJtheDETbruteADJcreationNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTalthoughSCONJtherePRONareVERBcertainADJconventionalADJrulesNOUNwhichPRONmustAUXalwaysADVbeAUXobservedVERB,PUNCTtheyPRONareAUXnotPARTthosePRONwhichPRONareAUXenforcedVERBbyADPanyDETpeopleNOUNknownVERBtoADPanthropologistsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 isexpl
2isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3boundlessboundlessADJDegree=Pos4 freedomamod
4freedomfreedomNOUNNumber=Sing2 isnsubj
5ofofADP_6 intercoursecase
6intercourseintercourseNOUNNumber=Sing4 freedomnmod
7betweenbetweenADP_8 mortalscase
8mortalsmortalNOUNNumber=Plur6 intercoursenmod
9andandCCONJ_10 immortalscc
10immortalsimmortalNOUNNumber=Plur8 mortalsconj
11,,PUNCT_13 mankindpunct
12betweenbetweenADP_13 mankindcase
13mankindmankindNOUNNumber=Sing8 mortalsconj
14andandCCONJ_17 creationcc
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 creationdet
16brutebruteADJDegree=Pos17 creationamod
17creationcreationNOUNNumber=Sing13 mankindconj
18,,PUNCT_39 enforcedpunct
19andandCCONJ_39 enforcedcc
20,,PUNCT_19 andpunct
21althoughalthoughSCONJ_23 aremark
22theretherePRONPronType=Dem23 areexpl
23arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 enforcedadvcl
24certaincertainADJDegree=Pos26 rulesamod
25conventionalconventionalADJDegree=Pos26 rulesamod
26rulesruleNOUNNumber=Plur23 arensubj
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 observednsubj:pass
28mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin31 observedaux
29alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot31 observedadvmod
30bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf31 observedaux:pass
31observedobserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 rulesacl:relcl
32,,PUNCT_23 arepunct
33theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs39 enforcednsubj
34arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 enforcedaux:pass
35notnotPARTPolarity=Neg39 enforcedadvmod
36thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem39 enforcednsubj:pass
37whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel39 enforcednsubj:pass
38arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 enforcedaux:pass
39enforcedenforceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 isconj
40bybyADP_42 peoplecase
41anyanyDETPronType=Ind42 peopledet
42peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur39 enforcedobl
43knownknowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass42 peopleacl
44totoADP_45 anthropologistscase
45anthropologistsanthropologistNOUNNumber=Plur43 knownobl
46..PUNCT_2 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresentboundless freedom of intercourse between mortals and immortals and mankind and the brute creationtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2doespresentcertain conventional rulestherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3observemust · passivecertain conventional rulesalways propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4not enforcepresent · passiveany peoplerules = rulevn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5knowparticipleany people not said hereto anthropologistsvn 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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