Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 150

While alluding to this subject, by the way, it may be as well to remark that no great reliance can be placed upon the evidence contained in the folk-tales of any land, with respect to the relations between its clergy and their flocks.

Who acts: subject, land · What happens: allude, be, remark, place, contain, tell · To what, where: great reliance, evidence, folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subject, land), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 alluding	mark
2	alluding	allude	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 remark	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 subject	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 subject	det
5	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alluding	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alluding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 alluding	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 well	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 well	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 well	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 remark	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 remark	mark
17	remark	remark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 placed	mark
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 reliance	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reliance	amod
21	reliance	reliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	nsubj:pass
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 placed	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 placed	aux:pass
24	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 remark	advcl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 evidence	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 evidence	det
27	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	obl
28	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 evidence	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 tales	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tales	det
31	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tales	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 folk	punct
33	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 contained	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 land	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 land	det
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tales	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 respect	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 respect	case
39	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 placed	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 relations	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 relations	det
42	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 respect	nmod
43	between	between	ADP	_	45 clergy	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 clergy	nmod:poss
45	clergy	clergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 relations	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 flocks	cc
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 flocks	nmod:poss
48	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 relations	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 remark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allude	gerund				to this subject; by the way	tree rules
2	is	may	subject			well property	tree rules
3	remark speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	place	can · passive		no great reliance	the evidence	with respect to the relations between reliance's clergy and relations's flocks	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon evidence=Destination
5	contain	participle		the evidence not said here	the folk tales of any land		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tale=Location
6	tell		any land				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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