Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 27

My chief aim has been to familiarize English readers with the Russian folk-tale; the historical and mythological problems involved in it can be discussed at a later period.

Who acts: chief aim, My · What happens: be, discuss, aim · To what, where: historical problems, period

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 (chief aim, My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 aim	nmod:poss
2	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 aim	amod
3	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 familiarize	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 familiarize	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 familiarize	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 familiarize	mark
7	familiarize	familiarize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 readers	amod
9	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 familiarize	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	15 tale	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
12	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tale	amod
13	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tale	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 folk	punct
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 familiarize	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 discussed	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 problems	det
18	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 problems	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mythological	cc
20	mythological	mythological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 historical	conj
21	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 discussed	nsubj:pass
22	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 problems	amod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 involved	obl
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 discussed	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 discussed	aux:pass
27	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 familiarize	parataxis
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 period	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 period	det
30	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 period	advmod
31	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 discussed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 familiarize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	My chief aim			with the Russian folk tale; familiarize property	tree rules
2	discuss speech: other	can · passive		the historical problems	a period		vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	aim		My				nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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