Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 221

Neither of them bears any title in the original, but we may style the first--

Who acts: we · What happens: style · To what, where: first

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 title	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 bears	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bears	nsubj
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Neither	nmod
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 title	det
6	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 original	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 original	det
9	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 title	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 style	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 style	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 style	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 style	aux
14	style	style	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 title	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 first	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 style	obj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 title	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	style	may	we	the first					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=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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