Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 124
Mr. Campbell says "I believe such a mode of torture can be traced amongst the Scandinavians, who once owned the Western Islands."
Who acts: Campbell, Scandinavians · What happens: say, believe, trace, own · To what, where: mode, Western Islands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Campbell, Scandinavians), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Campbell | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 mode | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mode | det |
| 9 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 torture | case |
| 11 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mode | nmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 traced | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 traced | aux:pass |
| 14 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 believe | ccomp |
| 15 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 17 Scandinavians | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Scandinavians | det |
| 17 | Scandinavians | Scandinavian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 traced | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 owned | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 owned | nsubj |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 owned | advmod |
| 21 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Scandinavians | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Islands | det |
| 23 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Islands | amod |
| 24 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 owned | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Campbell Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | present | Campbell Mr. = campbell | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | trace in a quote | can · passive | such mode of torture | amongst the Scandinavians | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | own in a quote | past | the Scandinavians | the Western Islands | once property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot island=Theme |
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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