Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 8
On the popular tales of a religious character current among the Russian peasantry, the duality of their creed, or of that of their ancestors, has produced a twofold effect.
Who acts: popular tales, religious character current · What happens: produce, tell · To what, where: twofold effect · 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 (popular tales, religious character current), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 tales | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 3 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 current | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 current | det |
| 7 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 current | amod |
| 8 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 current | compound |
| 9 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | nmod |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 peasantry | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasantry | det |
| 12 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peasantry | amod |
| 13 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 current | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 duality | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duality | det |
| 16 | duality | duality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 current | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 creed | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 creed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | creed | creed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 duality | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 produced | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 produced | cc |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 that | case |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 produced | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ancestors | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 that | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 that | punct |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 produced | aux |
| 29 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tales | acl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 effect | det |
| 31 | twofold | twofold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 effect | compound |
| 32 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 produced | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tales | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | present · perfect | the popular tales of a religious character current among the Russian peasantry not said here | a twofold effect | of the popular tales of a religious character current among the Russian peasantry | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | |||
| 2 | tell | a religious character current among the Russian peasantry | 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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