Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 71

[30] Professor de Gubernatis justly remarks that this "howling" is more in keeping with the nature of the eastern jackal than with that of its western counterpart, the fox. "

Who acts: 30, howling · What happens: remark, be, keep

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 (30, howling), 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 30	punct
2	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 remarks	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 30	punct
4	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remarks	nsubj
5	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Professor	flat
6	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Professor	flat
7	justly	justly	ADV	_	8 remarks	advmod
8	remarks	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 more	mark
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 howling	det
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 howling	punct
12	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 howling	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 more	cop
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 remarks	obj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 keeping	mark
17	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 more	advcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 nature	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nature	det
20	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeping	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 jackal	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jackal	det
23	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 jackal	amod
24	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nature	nmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 that	case
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 jackal	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 counterpart	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 counterpart	nmod:poss
30	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 counterpart	amod
31	counterpart	counterpart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 that	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fox	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fox	det
34	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 counterpart	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remarks	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 remarks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	present	30	justly property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	this howling	more property	tree rules
3	keep	gerund	this howling not said here	with the nature of the eastern jackal than that	vn keep-15.2 «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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