Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 28
Before long, in all probability, a copious flood of light will be poured upon the connexion of the Popular Tales of Russia with those of other lands by one of those scholars who are best qualified to deal with the subject.
Who acts: scholars, light · What happens: pour, be, deal, flood · To what, where: long probability
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 (scholars, light), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 probability | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 probability | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 probability | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 probability | det |
| 6 | probability | probability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flood | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flood | det |
| 9 | copious | copious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flood | amod |
| 10 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 probability | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flood | nmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 poured | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 poured | aux:pass |
| 15 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 connexion | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 connexion | det |
| 18 | connexion | connexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poured | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Tales | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Tales | det |
| 21 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Tales | amod |
| 22 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 connexion | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Russia | case |
| 24 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tales | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 those | case |
| 26 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 poured | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 lands | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lands | amod |
| 29 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 those | nmod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 poured | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 scholars | case |
| 33 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 scholars | det |
| 34 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 one | nmod |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 qualified | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 qualified | cop |
| 37 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 qualified | advmod |
| 38 | qualified | qualified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 scholars | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 deal | mark |
| 40 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 qualified | advcl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 subject | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 subject | det |
| 43 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 deal | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | future · passive | all long probability | upon the connexion of the Popular Tales of Russia; with those; by one of that scholars | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that scholars | qualified, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deal | to-infinitive | that scholars not said here | with the subject | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flood | light | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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