Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 117
Its dialect renders it somewhat difficult to read.
Who acts: dialect · What happens: render, read · To what, where: Government
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dialect), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dialect | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 renders | nsubj |
| 3 | renders | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 renders | obj |
| 5 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 renders | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 read | mark |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 difficult | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 renders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | present | Government's dialect | Government | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | Government's dialect not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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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