Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 9

But most of the Russian jests turn upon pivots which are familiar to all the world, and have for their themes such common-place topics as the incorrigible folly of man, the inflexible obstinacy of woman.

Who acts: most, pivots · What happens: turn, be, have · To what, where: pivots

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 (most, pivots), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 turn	cc
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 turn	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 jests	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jests	det
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jests	amod
6	jests	jest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 most	nmod
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 pivots	case
9	pivots	pivot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 familiar	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 familiar	cop
12	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pivots	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 world	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 world	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 familiar	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 themes	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 themes	nmod:poss
22	themes	theme	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obl
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 topics	amod
24	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 place	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 common	punct
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 topics	compound
27	topics	topic	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 themes	nmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 folly	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 folly	det
30	incorrigible	incorrigible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 folly	amod
31	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 topics	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 man	case
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 folly	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 obstinacy	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 obstinacy	det
36	inflexible	inflexible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 obstinacy	amod
37	obstinacy	obstinacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 topics	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 woman	case
39	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 obstinacy	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	most of the Russian jests	pivots		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon pivot=Trajectory
2	is	present	pivots		to all world; familiar property	tree rules
3	have	present	most of the Russian jests not said here		for jests's themes such place topics as the incorrigible folly of man and the inflexible obstinacy of woman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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