Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 60
The existence of hills is accounted for by legendary lore in this wise.
Who acts: legendary lore, hills · What happens: account, exist · To what, where: existence, wise
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 (legendary lore, hills), 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 | 2 existence | det |
| 2 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accounted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hills | case |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 existence | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 accounted | aux:pass |
| 6 | accounted | account | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 accounted | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 lore | case |
| 9 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lore | amod |
| 10 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accounted | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wise | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 wise | nsubj |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 accounted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | account | present · passive | legendary lore | the existence of hills | wise | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exist | hills | nom existence «state 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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