Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 3
The jokes which form the themes of the Russian facetious tales are for the most part common to all Europe.
Who acts: jokes · What happens: form, be · To what, where: themes
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 (jokes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jokes | det |
| 2 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 part | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 form | nsubj |
| 4 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 jokes | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 themes | det |
| 6 | themes | theme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 form | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tales | det |
| 9 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 10 | facetious | facetious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 themes | nmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 part | cop |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 part | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 part | amod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Europe | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Europe | det |
| 20 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 common | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | the jokes | the themes of the Russian facetious tales | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location theme=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the jokes | for the most part | tree rules |
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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