Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 6
Afanasief has also published a separate volume, containing 33 "legends," and he has inserted a great number of stories of various kinds in his "Poetic views of the Old Slavonians about Nature," a work to which I have had constant recourse.
Who acts: Chudinsky, I · What happens: publish, contain, insert, have, view · To what, where: Afanasief, 33 legends, great number, constant recourse, Old Slavonians
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 (Chudinsky, I), 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 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 published | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 published | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 published | advmod |
| 4 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 volume | det |
| 6 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 volume | amod |
| 7 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 published | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 containing | punct |
| 9 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 published | parataxis |
| 10 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 legends | nummod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 33 | punct |
| 12 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 containing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 legends | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 containing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 inserted | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 inserted | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 inserted | aux |
| 18 | inserted | insert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 published | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 number | amod |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inserted | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 stories | case |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 number | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 kinds | case |
| 25 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kinds | amod |
| 26 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stories | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 views | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 views | nmod:poss |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 views | punct |
| 30 | Poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 views | amod |
| 31 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kinds | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Slavonians | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Slavonians | det |
| 34 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Slavonians | amod |
| 35 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 views | nmod |
| 36 | about | about | ADP | _ | 37 Nature | case |
| 37 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Slavonians | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 work | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 work | punct |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 work | det |
| 41 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Slavonians | appos |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 which | case |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 had | obl |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 had | nsubj |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 had | aux |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 work | parataxis |
| 47 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 recourse | amod |
| 48 | recourse | recourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | present · perfect · passive | Afanasief | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | contain | gerund | 33 legends | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot legend=Theme | |||||
| 3 | insert | present · perfect | Chudinsky | a great number of stories of various kinds in Chudinsky's Poetic views of the Old Slavonians about Nature | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present · perfect | I | constant recourse | to a work | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient | |||
| 5 | view in a quote | Chudinsky | the Old Slavonians about Nature | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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