Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 50

To the _zaplachki_,[28] or laments, which are uttered on such occasions--frequently by hired wailers, who closely resemble the Corsican "vociferators," the modern Greek "myrologists"--allusions are sometimes made in the Skazkas.

Who acts: hired wailers · What happens: utter, hire, resemble, make · To what, where: laments, such occasions, Corsican vociferators, zaplachki, Skazkas

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 (hired wailers), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 zaplachki	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 zaplachki	det
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 zaplachki	punct
4	zaplachki	zaplachki	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 made	nsubj:pass
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 zaplachki	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 28	punct
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	8 28	punct
8	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 zaplachki	appos
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	8 28	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 laments	cc
11	laments	lament	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 made	nsubj:pass
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 uttered	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 uttered	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 uttered	aux:pass
15	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 laments	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 occasions	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 occasions	amod
18	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 uttered	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 wailers	punct
20	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	23 wailers	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 wailers	case
22	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wailers	amod
23	wailers	wailer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 uttered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 resemble	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 resemble	nsubj
26	closely	closely	ADV	_	27 resemble	advmod
27	resemble	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wailers	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 vociferators	det
29	Corsican	Corsican	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 vociferators	compound
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Corsican	punct
31	vociferators	vociferator	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 resemble	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 myrologists	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 myrologists	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 myrologists	det
35	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 myrologists	amod
36	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 myrologists	amod
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 myrologists	punct
38	myrologists	myrologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wailers	conj
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 myrologists	punct
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 allusions	punct
41	allusions	allusion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wailers	conj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 made	aux:pass
43	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 made	advmod
44	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 Skazkas	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Skazkas	det
47	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 made	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	present · passive	hired wailers and the modern Greek myrologists and allusions	laments	such occasions		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	hire	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	resemble	present	hired wailers and the modern Greek myrologists and allusions	the Corsican vociferators		closely property	tree rules
4	make	present · passive		the zaplachki	the Skazkas	sometimes property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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