Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 88
It is not only in the Vampire, however, that we find a point of close contact between the popular beliefs of the New-Greeks and the Slavonians.
Who acts: stress, we · What happens: not be, find, point, believe · To what, where: point, close contact, New Greeks
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 (stress, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Vampire | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Vampire | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Vampire | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 Vampire | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Vampire | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Vampire | det |
| 7 | Vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 however | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 Vampire | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Vampire | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 point | det |
| 15 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 contact | case |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 contact | amod |
| 18 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 point | nmod |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 beliefs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beliefs | det |
| 21 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beliefs | amod |
| 22 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 contact | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Greeks | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Greeks | det |
| 25 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Greeks | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 New | punct |
| 27 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 beliefs | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Slavonians | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Slavonians | det |
| 30 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 Greeks | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Vampire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | stress | in the Vampire; however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present | we | a point of close contact between the popular beliefs of the New Greeks and the Slavonians | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Topic | ||||
| 3 | point | close contact between the popular beliefs of the New Greeks and the Slavonians | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | believe | the New Greeks and the Slavonians | nom belief «cognition 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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