Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 102
Tales of this kind are common in all Christian lands, especially in those in which their folk-lore has preserved some traces of the old faith in the heathen gods who once walked the earth, and in patriarchal fashion dispensed justice among men.
Who acts: Tales, traces, kind · What happens: be, preserve, god, walk, dispense, tell · To what, where: Christian lands, folk lore, those, heathen, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tales, traces, kind), 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 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 common | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kind | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tales | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 common | cop |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lands | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 lands | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lands | amod |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 common | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 preserved | punct |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 22 preserved | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 those | case |
| 14 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 preserved | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 preserved | obl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lore | nmod:poss |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lore | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 folk | punct |
| 20 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 preserved | aux |
| 22 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 common | conj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 traces | det |
| 24 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 preserved | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 faith | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 faith | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 faith | amod |
| 28 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gods | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 heathen | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heathen | det |
| 31 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gods | obl |
| 32 | gods | god | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 traces | acl:relcl |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 walked | nsubj |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 35 walked | advmod |
| 35 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 gods | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 earth | det |
| 37 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 walked | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 justice | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 justice | cc |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 fashion | case |
| 41 | patriarchal | patriarchal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 fashion | amod |
| 42 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 justice | compound |
| 43 | dispensed | dispense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 justice | amod |
| 44 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 common | conj |
| 45 | among | among | ADP | _ | 46 men | case |
| 46 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 justice | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tales of this kind | all Christian lands | common property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | preserve | present · perfect · passive | tales's folk lore | those | especially property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | god | present | some traces not said here | the heathen | of the old faith | tree rules | |||
| 4 | walk | past | the earth | once property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | dispense | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | tell | this kind | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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