Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 20
And so--the story concludes--"ever since that time it has been called not a dog but a hound--skin-deep it is unclean (_pogana_), but clean within."
Who acts: story, time, church · What happens: conclude, call, be · To what, where: church, time · 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 (story, time, church), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 concludes | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 concludes | advmod |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 so | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 concludes | nsubj |
| 6 | concludes | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 clean | advcl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 concludes | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ever | punct |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 concludes | advmod |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 concludes | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 dog | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 skin | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 22 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | compound |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 hound | punct |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dog | conj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 unclean | punct |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 unclean | amod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 unclean | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 unclean | cop |
| 29 | unclean | unclean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 pogana | punct |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 pogana | punct |
| 32 | pogana | pogana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 unclean | appos |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 pogana | punct |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 pogana | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 clean | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 clean | cc |
| 37 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 38 | within | within | ADP | _ | 37 clean | case |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 clean | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 clean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | present | the story | ever; time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that time not said here | church | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | church | that time not said here | unclean 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/20/