Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 8

It is only when the joke hinges upon something which is peculiar to a people that it is likely to be found among that people only.

Who acts: stock, it · What happens: be, find · To what, where: peculiar, people

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 (stock, it), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hinges	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hinges	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 hinges	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 hinges	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hinges	nsubj
7	hinges	hinge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 hinges	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 peculiar	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 peculiar	cop
12	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 peculiar	nmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 likely	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 likely	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 likely	cop
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 found	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 found	aux:pass
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 likely	xcomp
23	among	among	ADP	_	25 people	case
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 among	fixed
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 found	obl
26	only	only	ADV	_	22 found	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hinges	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	stock		upon something; hinge property	tree rules
2	is a	present		peculiar	to a people	tree rules
3	is	present	it	a people not said here	likely property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive · passive			among people	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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