Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 10
But at all events each family now has features of its own, typical characteristics by which it may be readily distinguished from its neighbors.
Who acts: family, own typical characteristics · What happens: have, distinguish, feature · To what, where: features, events, family, own typical characteristics
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, own typical characteristics), 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 | _ | 8 has | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 events | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 events | det |
| 4 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obl |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 has | advmod |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 characteristics | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 characteristics | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 characteristics | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 characteristics | punct |
| 14 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 characteristics | amod |
| 15 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 features | nmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 distinguished | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 distinguished | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 distinguished | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 distinguished | aux:pass |
| 21 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 22 distinguished | advmod |
| 22 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 characteristics | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 neighbors | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 25 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 distinguished | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | each family | features of family's own typical characteristics | all events | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feature=Patient | ||
| 2 | distinguish | may · passive | family's own typical characteristics | family | from family's neighbors; readily property | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from neighbor=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | feature | family's own typical characteristics | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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