Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 22

_We say that we are wise folks, but our old people dispute the fact, saying: "No, no, we were wiser than you are."

Who acts: We, old people, you · What happens: say, be, dispute · To what, where: wise folks, fact · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (We, old people, 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 folks	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 folks	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 folks	cop
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 folks	amod
8	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dispute	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 dispute	cc
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 people	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dispute	nsubj
14	dispute	dispute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fact	det
16	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dispute	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dispute	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 wiser	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 wiser	punct
21	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	27 wiser	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wiser	punct
23	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	27 wiser	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wiser	punct
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wiser	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wiser	cop
27	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 say	parataxis
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 are	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 are	nsubj
30	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wiser	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	We			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	we	wise folks		tree rules
3	dispute	present	our old people	the fact		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	our old people not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	past	we		wise property	tree rules
6	does in a quote	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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