Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 21

According to another story, when men first inhabited the earth, they did not know how to build houses, so as to keep themselves warm in winter.

Who acts: men, stories · What happens: accord, inhabit, not know, build, keep · To what, where: earth, houses, stories · 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 (men, stories), 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 story	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inhabited	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 inhabited	advmod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 inhabited	nsubj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 inhabited	advmod
9	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inhabited	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 inhabited	parataxis
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 build	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 build	mark
19	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	ccomp
20	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 build	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 keep	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 keep	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 keep	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	conj
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 keep	obj
27	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 keep	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 winter	case
29	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keep	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 inhabited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	inhabit	past	men	the earth		accord another story; first property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	stories = story				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	build	to-infinitive		houses			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
5	keep	to-infinitive	stories = story not said here	stories = story	winter	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme

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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