Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 5
An unfamiliar joke is but rarely to be discovered in the lower strata of fiction.
What happens: be · To what, where: unfamiliar joke, lower strata
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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 joke | det |
| 2 | unfamiliar | unfamiliar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joke | amod |
| 3 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 discovered | cop |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 discovered | cc |
| 6 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 9 discovered | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 discovered | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 discovered | aux:pass |
| 9 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 strata | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 strata | det |
| 12 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 strata | amod |
| 13 | strata | strata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fiction | case |
| 15 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strata | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | a unfamiliar joke | the lower strata of fiction | discover, rarely property | 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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