Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 88
Such narratives as these are to be found in every land, but Russia is specially rich in them, the faith of the peasantry in the existence of Witches and Wizards, Turnskins and Vampires, not having been as yet seriously shaken.
Who acts: Russia, Witches · What happens: find, be, not shake, exist · To what, where: Such narratives, land
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russia, Witches), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 narratives | amod |
| 2 | narratives | narrative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 narratives | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 found | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rich | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 rich | cc |
| 14 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 rich | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rich | cop |
| 16 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 17 rich | advmod |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rich | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 faith | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 faith | det |
| 22 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 peasantry | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 peasantry | det |
| 25 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 faith | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 existence | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 existence | det |
| 28 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 peasantry | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Witches | case |
| 30 | Witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 existence | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Wizards | cc |
| 32 | Wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Witches | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Turnskins | punct |
| 34 | Turnskins | turnskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Witches | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Vampires | cc |
| 36 | Vampires | vampire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Witches | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 shaken | punct |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 shaken | advmod |
| 39 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 shaken | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 shaken | aux:pass |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 shaken | mark |
| 42 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 43 seriously | advmod |
| 43 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 44 shaken | advmod |
| 44 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Witches | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Such narratives as these | every land | the faith of the peasantry in the existence of Witches and Wizards and Turnskins and Vampires obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | Russia | in narratives = narrative; rich, specially property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not shake | gerund · perfect · passive | seriously property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | exist | Witches and Wizards and Turnskins and Vampires | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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