Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 93
The numerous traditions which have gathered around the original idea vary to some extent according to their locality, but they are never radically inconsistent.
Who acts: numerous traditions, traditions · What happens: gather, vary, accord, not be · To what, where: numerous traditions, original idea
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 (numerous traditions, traditions), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 traditions | det |
| 2 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 traditions | amod |
| 3 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 vary | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gathered | aux |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 traditions | acl:relcl |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 idea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 idea | det |
| 9 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 idea | amod |
| 10 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | obl |
| 11 | vary | vary | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 extent | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 extent | det |
| 14 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vary | obl |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 locality | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 according | fixed |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 locality | nmod:poss |
| 18 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extent | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 inconsistent | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 inconsistent | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 inconsistent | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 inconsistent | cop |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 inconsistent | advmod |
| 24 | radically | radically | ADV | _ | 25 inconsistent | advmod |
| 25 | inconsistent | inconsistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vary | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 vary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present · perfect · passive | the numerous traditions | the original idea | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vary | infinitive | the numerous traditions | to some extent accord traditions's locality | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not is | present | traditions = tradition | inconsistent, radically property | tree rules |
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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