Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 151

The local parson of folk-lore is, as a general rule, merely the innocent inheritor of the bad reputation acquired by some ecclesiastic of another age and clime.

Who acts: local parson · What happens: be, acquire · To what, where: bad reputation

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 (local parson), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parson	det
2	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parson	amod
3	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rule	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 lore	case
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lore	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 folk	punct
7	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parson	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rule	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rule	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 rule	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rule	det
12	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rule	amod
13	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 inheritor	punct
15	merely	merely	ADV	_	18 inheritor	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 inheritor	det
17	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 inheritor	amod
18	inheritor	inheritor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rule	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 reputation	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 reputation	det
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reputation	amod
22	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inheritor	nmod
23	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 reputation	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 ecclesiastic	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 ecclesiastic	det
26	ecclesiastic	ecclesiastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 acquired	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 age	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 age	det
29	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ecclesiastic	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 clime	cc
31	clime	clime	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 age	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rule	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the local parson of folk lore					as a general rule	tree rules
2	acquire	participle		the bad reputation not said here				by some ecclesiastic of another age and clime	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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