Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 121
Very long ago, say the old folks; beyond the memory even of our great-grandfathers.
Who acts: you · What happens: say · To what, where: old folks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 folks | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 folks | amod |
| 8 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 memory | punct |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 memory | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 memory | det |
| 12 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 grandfathers | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grandfathers | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grandfathers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grandfathers | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
| 18 | grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 memory | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the old folks | beyond the memory of our great grandfathers; ago property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent folk=Topic |
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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