Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 132

Even the possession of arms and the presence of a dog will not always, it seems, render a man secure from this terrible species of cut-throat.

Who acts: it, possession · What happens: not seem, render, possess · To what, where: man, arms

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, possession), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 possession	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 possession	det
3	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 render	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 arms	case
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 possession	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 presence	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 presence	det
8	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arms	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 presence	nmod
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 render	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 seems	advmod
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 seems	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 always	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seems	nsubj
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 render	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 render	punct
19	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 render	obj
22	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 render	xcomp
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 species	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 species	det
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 species	amod
26	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 secure	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 throat	case
28	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throat	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 cut	punct
30	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 species	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 render	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not seem	present	it		always property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	render	future	the possession of arms and the presence of a dog	a man	secure property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	possess			arms and the presence of a dog		nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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