Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 84
But although drunkenness is very tenderly treated in the Skazkas, as well as in the folk-songs, it forms the subject of many a moral lesson, couched in terms of the utmost severity, in the _stikhi_ (or poems of a religious character, sung by the blind beggars and other wandering minstrels who sing in front of churches), and also in the "Legends," which are tales of a semi-religious (or rather demi-semi-religious) nature.
Who acts: drunkenness, other wandering minstrels, Legends · What happens: be, treat, form, couch, sing, wonder · To what, where: Skazkas, subject, folk songs, terms, poems, front
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drunkenness, other wandering minstrels, Legends), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 treated | cc |
| 2 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 6 tenderly | mark |
| 3 | drunkenness | drunkenness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tenderly | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tenderly | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 tenderly | advmod |
| 6 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treated | advcl |
| 7 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Skazkas | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Skazkas | det |
| 10 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 treated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 songs | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 songs | cc |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 songs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 songs | det |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 songs | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 folk | punct |
| 19 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 treated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forms | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 forms | nsubj |
| 22 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 songs | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 subject | det |
| 24 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forms | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 lesson | case |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lesson | nsubj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lesson | det |
| 28 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lesson | amod |
| 29 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 subject | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 couched | punct |
| 31 | couched | couch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 songs | acl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 terms | case |
| 33 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 couched | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 severity | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 severity | det |
| 36 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 severity | amod |
| 37 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 terms | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 stikhi | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 stikhi | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 stikhi | det |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 stikhi | punct |
| 42 | stikhi | stikhi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 couched | obl |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 stikhi | punct |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 poems | punct |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 poems | cc |
| 46 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 stikhi | appos |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 character | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 character | det |
| 49 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 character | amod |
| 50 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 poems | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 sung | punct |
| 52 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 poems | acl |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 56 beggars | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 beggars | det |
| 55 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 beggars | amod |
| 56 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 sung | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 minstrels | cc |
| 58 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 minstrels | amod |
| 59 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 60 minstrels | amod |
| 60 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 beggars | conj |
| 61 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 62 sing | nsubj |
| 62 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 minstrels | acl:relcl |
| 63 | in | in | ADP | _ | 64 front | case |
| 64 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 sing | obl |
| 65 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 churches | case |
| 66 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 front | nmod |
| 67 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 60 minstrels | punct |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 Legends | punct |
| 69 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 Legends | cc |
| 70 | also | also | ADV | _ | 74 Legends | advmod |
| 71 | in | in | ADP | _ | 74 Legends | case |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 Legends | det |
| 73 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 74 Legends | punct |
| 74 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 poems | conj |
| 75 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 Legends | punct |
| 76 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 74 Legends | punct |
| 77 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 79 tales | nsubj |
| 78 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 79 tales | cop |
| 79 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 74 Legends | parataxis |
| 80 | of | of | ADP | _ | 92 nature | case |
| 81 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 92 nature | det |
| 82 | semi-religious | semi-religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 92 nature | amod |
| 83 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 90 religious | punct |
| 84 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 90 religious | cc |
| 85 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 90 religious | advmod |
| 86 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 90 religious | nsubj |
| 87 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 86 demi | punct |
| 88 | semi | semi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 90 religious | nsubj |
| 89 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 90 religious | punct |
| 90 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 92 nature | amod |
| 91 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 90 religious | punct |
| 92 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 tales | nmod |
| 93 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | drunkenness | tenderly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | treat | participle | the Skazkas | in the folk songs | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | form | present | drunkenness | the subject of a moral lesson | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | couch | participle | the folk songs not said here | terms of the utmost severity | in the stikhi | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sing speech: express | participle | poems of a religious character and the Legends not said here | by the blind beggars and other wandering minstrels | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by beggar=Location | ||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | present | other wandering minstrels | front of churches | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | the Legends | tales | of a semi-religious religious nature | tree rules | |||
| 9 | term | the utmost severity | nom term «communication 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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