Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 98
With us the custom survives; its explanation has been forgotten.
Who acts: custom, hesitation · What happens: survive, forget, explain · To what, where: explanation
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (custom, hesitation), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 us | case |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 survives | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 custom | det |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 survives | nsubj |
| 5 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 survives | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 explanation | nmod:poss |
| 8 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgotten | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 forgotten | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 11 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 survives | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 survives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | present | the custom | with us | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | present · perfect · passive | hesitation's explanation | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | explain | hesitation | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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