Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 8

The sacred nature of such an obligation may account for the singular reticence so often maintained, under similar circumstances, in stories of this class.

What happens: maintain · To what, where: sacred nature, similar circumstances

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: 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	3 nature	det
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nature	amod
3	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maintained	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 account	case
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 account	det:predet
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 obligation	det
7	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 account	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 account	aux
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nature	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 reticence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reticence	det
12	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reticence	amod
13	reticence	reticence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 account	nmod
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 maintained	advmod
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 maintained	advmod
16	maintained	maintain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 circumstances	punct
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 circumstances	case
19	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 circumstances	amod
20	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 maintained	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stories	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 stories	case
23	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 maintained	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 class	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 class	det
26	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stories	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 maintained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	maintain	participle · passive		the sacred nature of such account for the singular reticence		similar circumstances		often property	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme

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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