Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 7
And by common consent the Raven (or some sort of crow) is supposed to know where this invaluable specific is to be found,[299] a knowledge which it shares with various supernatural beings as well as with some human adepts in magic, and sometimes with the Snake.
Who acts: common consent, this, knowledge · What happens: suppose, know, be, find, share, sort · To what, where: Raven, crow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (common consent, this, knowledge), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 supposed | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 consent | case |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 consent | amod |
| 4 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supposed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Raven | det |
| 6 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 sort | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 sort | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Raven | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crow | case |
| 12 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 sort | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 supposed | aux:pass |
| 15 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 supposed | xcomp |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 specific | advmod |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 specific | nsubj |
| 20 | invaluable | invaluable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 specific | amod |
| 21 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 know | ccomp |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 specific | cop |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 specific | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 299 | punct |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 28 299 | punct |
| 28 | 299 | 299 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 supposed | obl |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 28 299 | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 knowledge | det |
| 31 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supposed | obj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 shares | nsubj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shares | nsubj |
| 34 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 knowledge | acl:relcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 beings | case |
| 36 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 beings | amod |
| 37 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 beings | amod |
| 38 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 shares | obl |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 34 shares | advmod |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 as | fixed |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 as | fixed |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 adepts | case |
| 43 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 adepts | det |
| 44 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 adepts | amod |
| 45 | adepts | adept | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 shares | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 magic | case |
| 47 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 adepts | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Snake | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Snake | cc |
| 50 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 53 Snake | advmod |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 Snake | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Snake | det |
| 53 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supposed | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | common consent | the Raven | with the Snake; 299 obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | common consent not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | this | specific property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive · passive | this not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | |||||
| 5 | share | present | a knowledge | with various supernatural beings; with some human adepts in magic | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sort | crow | nom sort «cognition transitive»: 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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