Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 27

Sure enough the proverb doesn't say without reason: "Women have long hair and short wits."

Who acts: proverb, Women · What happens: not say, have · To what, where: long hair · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (proverb, Women), 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	Sure	sure	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Sure	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 proverb	det
4	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 reason	case
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hair	amod
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wits	cc
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wits	amod
18	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hair	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the proverb					without reason; sure property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	Women	long hair and short wits					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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