Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 35

[14] I speak only of what I have seen.

Who acts: 14, I · What happens: speak, see · 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 (14, I), 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 14	punct
2	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 speak	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 14	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
5	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 speak	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	14						tree rules
2	see	present · perfect	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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