Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 137

[61] Professor de Gubernatis remarks that he may sometimes be called "the first Brutus of popular tradition." "

Who acts: Professor · What happens: remark, call · To what, where: 61, Professor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Professor), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 61	punct
2	61	61	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 remarks	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 61	punct
4	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 remarks	nsubj
5	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Professor	flat
6	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Professor	flat
7	remarks	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 called	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 called	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 remarks	ccomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Brutus	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Brutus	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 Brutus	amod
17	Brutus	Brutus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tradition	case
19	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tradition	amod
20	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Brutus	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Brutus	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Brutus	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Brutus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	present	Professor	61					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	may · passive		Professor				sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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