Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 25

Professor de Gubernatis has discussed at length, and with much learning, the esoteric meaning of the skazkas, and their bearing upon the questions to which the "solar theory" of myth-explanation has given rise.

Who acts: Professor · What happens: discuss, give, mean · To what, where: length, solar theory, skazkas

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 (Professor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 discussed	nsubj
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Professor	flat
3	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Professor	flat
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 discussed	aux
5	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 length	case
7	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discussed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learning	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 learning	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 learning	case
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 learning	amod
12	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discussed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 meaning	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meaning	det
15	esoteric	esoteric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meaning	amod
16	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 learning	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 skazkas	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 skazkas	det
19	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 meaning	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bearing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bearing	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bearing	nmod:poss
23	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 learning	conj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 questions	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 questions	det
26	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bearing	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 given	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 theory	det
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 theory	punct
31	solar	solar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 theory	amod
32	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 given	nsubj:pass
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 theory	punct
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 explanation	case
35	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 explanation	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 myth	punct
37	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 theory	nmod
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 given	aux
39	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 questions	acl:relcl
40	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 given	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 discussed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discuss speech: other	present · perfect	Professor		length	with much learning and the esoteric meaning of the skazkas and skazkas's bearing upon the questions	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with learning=Co-Agent
2	give	present · perfect · passive		the solar theory of myth explanation		to the questions	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme
3	mean			the skazkas			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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