Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 123

With respect to its origin, there can be very little doubt, such a feature as that of the incense-burning pointing directly to a Buddhist source.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: little doubt

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 respect	case
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doubt	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 origin	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 origin	nmod:poss
5	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respect	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 respect	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 be	expl
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 doubt	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 doubt	amod
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feature	punct
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 feature	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 feature	det
16	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doubt	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 feature	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 pointing	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pointing	det
21	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burning	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 incense	punct
23	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 pointing	amod
24	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 that	nmod
25	directly	directly	ADV	_	29 source	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 source	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 source	det
28	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 source	amod
29	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pointing	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 doubt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	imperative	you not said here	little doubt and such feature as that				with respect to respect's origin	tree rules
2	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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