Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 36

Dr. Benfey has devoted to it no less than sixteen pages of his introduction to the Panchatantra,[52] tracing it from its original Indian home, and its subsequent abode in Persia, into almost every European land.

Who acts: Benfey · What happens: devote, trace, page, introduce · To what, where: sixteen pages, part, European land, original Indian home, introduction

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 (Benfey), 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	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Benfey	nmod:desc
2	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 devoted	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 devoted	aux
4	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 devoted	obl
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 less	advmod
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 sixteen	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 less	fixed
10	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pages	nummod
11	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 devoted	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 introduction	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 introduction	nmod:poss
14	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pages	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Panchatantra	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Panchatantra	det
17	Panchatantra	Panchatantra	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 introduction	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 52	punct
19	[	[	PUNCT	_	20 52	punct
20	52	52	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 devoted	parataxis
21	]	]	PUNCT	_	20 52	punct
22	tracing	trace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 devoted	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tracing	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	28 home	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 home	nmod:poss
26	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 home	amod
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 home	amod
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tracing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 abode	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 abode	cc
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 abode	nmod:poss
32	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 abode	amod
33	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 devoted	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Persia	case
35	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 abode	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 land	punct
37	into	into	ADP	_	41 land	case
38	almost	almost	ADV	_	41 land	advmod
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 land	det
40	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 land	amod
41	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 devoted	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	devote	present · perfect	Benfey Dr.	sixteen pages of Benfey's introduction to the Panchatantra	part	every European land		vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent page=Theme to it=Goal
2	trace	gerund	Benfey Dr. not said here	part		part's original Indian home		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	page			Benfey's introduction to the Panchatantra				nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	introduce		Benfey				to the Panchatantra	nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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