Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 23

[49] The final paragraph of one of the variants of this time-honored jest is quaint, concluding as it does, by way of sting, with a highly popular Russian saw.

Who acts: 49, paragraph, honored jest · What happens: honor, be, conclude, do, vary

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 (49, paragraph, honored jest), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 49	punct
2	49	49	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 quaint	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 49	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 paragraph	det
5	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paragraph	amod
6	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 quaint	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 paragraph	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 variants	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 variants	det
11	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 jest	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 jest	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 honored	obl:unmarked
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
16	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 jest	amod
17	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 variants	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 quaint	cop
19	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 concluding	punct
21	concluding	conclude	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 quaint	advcl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 does	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 does	nsubj
24	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 concluding	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 way	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 way	case
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 does	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 sting	case
29	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 way	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	36 saw	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 saw	det
33	highly	highly	ADV	_	34 popular	advmod
34	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 saw	amod
35	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 saw	amod
36	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 does	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 quaint	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	honor	participle		time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	49		quaint property	tree rules
3	conclude	gerund	49 not said here			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	present	paragraph		by way of sting; with a popular Russian saw	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	vary		this honored jest			nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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