Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 78
But animated corpses often play an important part in the traditions of other countries.
Who acts: animated corpses · What happens: play · To what, where: important part, traditions
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (animated corpses), 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 play | cc |
| 2 | animated | animated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 corpses | amod |
| 3 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 play | advmod |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 7 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 part | amod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 traditions | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 traditions | det |
| 11 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 play | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 countries | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 countries | amod |
| 14 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 traditions | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | animated corpses | a important part | the traditions of other countries | often property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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