Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 23
Another chapter which I have, at least for a time, suppressed, is that in which I had attempted to say something about the origin and the meaning of the Russian folk-tales.
Who acts: I, chapter · What happens: have, suppress, be, say, mean · To what, where: chapter, least, something, Russian folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, chapter), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 chapter | det |
| 2 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attempted | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 have | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chapter | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 least | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 least | case |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 have | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 least | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suppressed | punct |
| 13 | suppressed | suppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chapter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 chapter | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 attempted | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 attempted | mark |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 attempted | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 attempted | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 attempted | aux |
| 21 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 say | mark |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 attempted | xcomp |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 say | obj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 origin | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 origin | det |
| 27 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 something | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 meaning | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 meaning | det |
| 30 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 origin | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tales | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tales | det |
| 33 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 tales | amod |
| 34 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tales | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 folk | punct |
| 36 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 meaning | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | another chapter | least | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 2 | suppress | participle | another chapter not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | another chapter | attempt property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | another chapter not said here | something | about the origin and the meaning of the Russian folk tales | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 5 | mean | the Russian folk tales | nom meaning «communication 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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