Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 105

And so I will revert to those ideas about the dead, and about their abiding-place, which the modern Slavonians seem to have inherited from their heathen ancestors, and I will attempt to illustrate them by a few Russian ghost-stories.

Who acts: I, modern Slavonians · What happens: revert, seem, inherit, attempt, illustrate · To what, where: abiding place, heathen ancestors, Slavonians

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, modern Slavonians), 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	_	5 revert	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 revert	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 revert	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 revert	aux
5	revert	revert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ideas	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 ideas	det
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 revert	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 dead	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dead	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ideas	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 place	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 place	cc
14	about	about	ADP	_	18 place	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 place	nmod:poss
16	abiding	abiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 place	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 abiding	punct
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 revert	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seem	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seem	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Slavonians	det
22	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Slavonians	amod
23	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 seem	nsubj
24	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 place	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 inherited	mark
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 inherited	aux
27	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 seem	xcomp
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 ancestors	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ancestors	nmod:poss
30	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ancestors	compound
31	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 inherited	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 attempt	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 attempt	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 attempt	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 attempt	aux
36	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 inherited	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 illustrate	mark
38	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 attempt	xcomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 illustrate	obj
40	by	by	ADP	_	46 stories	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 stories	det
42	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 stories	amod
43	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 stories	amod
44	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stories	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 ghost	punct
46	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 illustrate	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 revert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	revert	future	I			to that ideas about the dead result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to idea=Result
2	seem	present	the modern Slavonians	ideas's abiding place			tree rules
3	inherit	to-infinitive · perfect	the modern Slavonians not said here		Slavonians's heathen ancestors		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ancestor=Source
4	attempt	future	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	illustrate not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	Slavonians = slavonian		by a few Russian ghost stories	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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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