Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 81
But most of them belong, I think, to a separate group, due to a different myth or superstition from that which has given rise to such tales as those quoted above.
Who acts: most, I, different myth · What happens: belong, think, give, rise, quote · To what, where: such tales
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, I, different myth), 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 | _ | 5 belong | cc |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 most | nmod |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 belong | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 group | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 group | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 group | det |
| 12 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 group | amod |
| 13 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 myth | punct |
| 15 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 myth | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 due | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 myth | det |
| 18 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 myth | amod |
| 19 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 group | parataxis |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 superstition | cc |
| 21 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 myth | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 that | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 myth | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 given | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 myth | parataxis |
| 27 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 given | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 tales | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tales | amod |
| 30 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rise | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 those | case |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 given | obl |
| 33 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 those | acl |
| 34 | above | above | ADV | _ | 33 quoted | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | most of respects | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | present · perfect | a different myth from that or superstition | as those | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rise | infinitive | a different myth from that or superstition not said here | such tales | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tale=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | quote speech: other | participle | above property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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