Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 41
We may take next the legends current among the peasantry about various saints.
Who acts: We · What happens: take · To what, where: legends current
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 current | det |
| 6 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 current | compound |
| 7 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 peasantry | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peasantry | det |
| 10 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 saints | case |
| 12 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 saints | amod |
| 13 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 peasantry | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | may | We | the legends current | among the peasantry about various saints; next property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=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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