Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 14

They have often been quoted as "creations of the Slavonic mind," but there seems to be no reason for doubting that they are merely Russian adaptations, the first of the adventures of the Persian Rustem, the second of those of the Italian Buovo di Antona, our Sir Bevis of Hampton.

Who acts: reason, stories · What happens: quote, seem, be, doubt, create, adventure · To what, where: stories, reason, Russian adaptations, Bevis, Slavonic mind, Persian Rustem

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, stories), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quoted	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quoted	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	5 quoted	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 quoted	aux:pass
5	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 creations	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 creations	punct
8	creations	creation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quoted	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 mind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mind	det
11	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mind	amod
12	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 creations	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quoted	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quoted	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 seems	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 seems	expl
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quoted	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	21 reason	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 reason	cop
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 reason	det
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seems	xcomp
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 doubting	mark
23	doubting	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 reason	acl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 adaptations	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 adaptations	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 adaptations	cop
27	merely	merely	ADV	_	29 adaptations	advmod
28	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 adaptations	amod
29	adaptations	adaptation	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 doubting	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 first	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 first	det
32	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 adaptations	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 adventures	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 adventures	det
35	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 first	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 Rustem	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Rustem	det
38	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Rustem	compound
39	Rustem	Rustem	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 adventures	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 second	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 second	det
42	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 reason	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 those	case
44	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 second	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 Buovo	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Buovo	det
47	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Buovo	amod
48	Buovo	Buovo	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 those	nmod
49	di	DI	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Buovo	flat
50	Antona	Antona	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Buovo	flat
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Bevis	punct
52	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 Bevis	nmod:poss
53	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Bevis	nmod:desc
54	Bevis	Bevis	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 second	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 Hampton	case
56	Hampton	Hampton	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Bevis	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	present · perfect · passive		stories = story		as creations of the Slavonic mind; often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	seem	present			there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		no reason			tree rules
4	doubt	gerund	no reason not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	stories = story	Russian adaptations		merely property	tree rules
6	be			our Bevis Sir of Hampton		of those	tree rules
7	create in a quote			the Slavonic mind			nom creation «act transitive»: of=patient
8	adventure			the Persian Rustem			nom adventure «act 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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