Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 49
A Russian peasant funeral is preceded or accompanied by a considerable amount of wailing, which answers in some respect to the Irish "keening."
Who acts: considerable amount, answers · What happens: precede, accompany, keen, amount · To what, where: Russian peasant funeral, Irish, wailing
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 (considerable amount, answers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 funeral | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 funeral | amod |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 funeral | amod |
| 4 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preceded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 preceded | aux:pass |
| 6 | preceded | precede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 accompanied | cc |
| 8 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 preceded | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 amount | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 amount | det |
| 11 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 amount | amod |
| 12 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preceded | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wailing | case |
| 14 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amount | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 answers | punct |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 17 answers | det |
| 17 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 amount | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 respect | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 respect | det |
| 20 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answers | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Irish | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Irish | det |
| 23 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 keening | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Irish | punct |
| 25 | keening | keen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 answers | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 keening | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 keening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | present · passive | a considerable amount of wailing and which answers in some respect | a Russian peasant funeral | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | accompany | participle | a considerable amount of wailing and which answers in some respect not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keen in a quote | gerund | which answers in some respect not said here | the Irish | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to irish=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | amount | wailing | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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