Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 82
Among the Albanians and Modern Greeks they have taken firm root, but on those peoples a strong Slavonic influence has been brought to bear.
Who acts: Albanians · What happens: take, bring, bear · To what, where: Modern Greeks, strong Slavonic influence
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 (Albanians), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Albanians | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Albanians | det |
| 3 | Albanians | Albanian | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taken | cc |
| 5 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Greeks | amod |
| 6 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Albanians | conj |
| 10 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 root | amod |
| 11 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 peoples | case |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 peoples | det |
| 16 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brought | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 influence | det |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 influence | amod |
| 19 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 influence | amod |
| 20 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 brought | aux:pass |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Albanians | acl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bear | mark |
| 25 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 brought | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Albanians | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect · passive | Modern Greeks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme root=Destination | |||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | the Albanians not said here | a strong Slavonic influence | on that peoples | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on people=Destination | |||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | the Albanians not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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