Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 28
Now, so far as style is concerned, the Skazkas or Russian folk-tales, may justly be said to be characteristic of the Russian people.
Who acts: style · What happens: be, say · To what, where: characteristic · 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 (style), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 said | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 concerned | mark |
| 6 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concerned | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 concerned | cop |
| 8 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 far | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 far | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Skazkas | det |
| 11 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 far | nsubj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 tales | cc |
| 13 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tales | amod |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 folk | punct |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Skazkas | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 far | punct |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux |
| 19 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 21 said | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | aux:pass |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 characteristic | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 characteristic | cop |
| 24 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 27 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 characteristic | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | style | concerned property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | may · passive | now | far, justly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | characteristic | of the Russian people | tree rules |
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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