Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 79

[176] In the Gaelic stories it is not an uncommon incident for a man to have "a strip of skin cut off him from his crown to his sole."

Who acts: story, strip, man · What happens: not be, have, cut off, crown · To what, where: uncommon incident, strip, man, crown

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, strip, man), 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	_	2 176	punct
2	176	176	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 176	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	7 stories	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
6	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 176	nmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 incident	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 incident	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 incident	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 incident	det
12	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 incident	amod
13	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stories	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 incident	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 incident	acl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 strip	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 strip	det
21	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 skin	case
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strip	nmod
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 strip	acl
25	off	off	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 crown	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 crown	nmod:poss
29	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 sole	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sole	nmod:poss
32	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crown	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 176	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 176	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	story	a uncommon incident		for a man	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		a strip of skin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Patient
3	cut off in a quote	participle	a strip of skin not said here	man	man's crown to man's sole		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme from crown=Initial_Location
4	crown in a quote		man			to man's sole	nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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