Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 13

[72] I now propose to deal with them more fully, quoting at length, instead of merely mentioning, some of the evidence on which the proof of their existence depends.

Who acts: 72, proof, beings · What happens: propose, deal, quote, mention, depend, proof · To what, where: length, existence

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 (72, proof, beings), 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 72	punct
2	72	72	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 propose	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 72	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 propose	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 propose	advmod
6	propose	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 deal	mark
8	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 propose	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deal	obl
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 fully	advmod
12	fully	fully	ADV	_	8 deal	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quoting	punct
14	quoting	quote	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 deal	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 length	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quoting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mentioning	punct
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 mentioning	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	merely	merely	ADV	_	21 mentioning	advmod
21	mentioning	mention	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 quoting	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 some	punct
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 mentioning	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 evidence	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 evidence	det
26	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 some	nmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 depends	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 proof	det
30	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 depends	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 existence	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 existence	nmod:poss
33	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 proof	nmod
34	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 evidence	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 propose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	present	72			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deal	to-infinitive	72 not said here				with beings = being; fully property	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
3	quote speech: other	gerund	72 not said here		length			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mention speech: other	gerund	72 not said here				merely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	depend	present	the proof of beings's existence				on the evidence	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on which=Theme
6	proof			beings's existence				nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	exist		beings = being					nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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