Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 23

But skazkas tell that, before our grandfathers had learnt anything, before their grandfathers[330] were born_--[331]

Who acts: skazkas, grandfathers · What happens: tell, learn, bear · To what, where: that, anything, grandfathers · 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 (skazkas, grandfathers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
2	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learnt	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 learnt	mark
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandfathers	nmod:poss
8	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learnt	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 learnt	aux
10	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 tell	parataxis
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 learnt	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grandfathers	punct
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 grandfathers	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 grandfathers	nmod:poss
15	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 born	nsubj:pass
16	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 330	punct
17	330	330	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 grandfathers	appos
18	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 330	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 born	aux:pass
20	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 learnt	conj
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 born	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 331	punct
23	[	[	PUNCT	_	24 331	punct
24	331	331	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 tell	ccomp
25	]	]	PUNCT	_	24 331	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	skazkas	that	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
2	learn	past · perfect	our grandfathers	anything	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	bear	past · passive		grandfathers's grandfathers	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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