Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 40
The legend to which I am now about to refer will serve as a proof of the venerable antiquity of the myth from which the folk-tales, which have just been quoted, appear to have sprung.
Who acts: I, legend, folk tales · What happens: be, refer, serve, quote, appear, spring · To what, where: folk tales, myth, venerable antiquity
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, legend, folk tales), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 serve | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 refer | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 about | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | cop |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 about | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 refer | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 refer | mark |
| 10 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 legend | acl:relcl |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 serve | aux |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 proof | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 proof | det |
| 15 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 serve | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 antiquity | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 antiquity | det |
| 18 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 antiquity | amod |
| 19 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proof | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 myth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 myth | det |
| 22 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 antiquity | nmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 appear | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tales | det |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tales | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 folk | punct |
| 28 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 appear | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 quoted | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 quoted | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 quoted | aux |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 quoted | advmod |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 quoted | aux:pass |
| 34 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tales | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 appear | punct |
| 36 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 myth | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 sprung | mark |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 sprung | aux |
| 39 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 appear | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | about property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | refer | to-infinitive | the legend not said here | to the legend | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | serve | future | the legend | as a proof of the venerable antiquity of the myth | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as proof=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | quote speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the folk tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | appear | present | the folk tales | the myth | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | spring | to-infinitive · perfect | the folk tales not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | proof | the venerable antiquity of the myth | nom proof «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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