Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 4
And a similar assertion may be made with regard to the stories of most lands.
What happens: make · To what, where: similar assertion
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 assertion | det |
| 3 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 assertion | amod |
| 4 | assertion | assertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 regard | case |
| 9 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stories | det |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 regard | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lands | case |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 lands | amod |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stories | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | may · passive | a similar assertion | with regard to the stories of most lands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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