Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 150

It might have been supposed that the fearful efficacy of such an imprecation would have silenced bad language, as that of the _Vril_ rendered war impossible among the Vril-ya of "The Coming Race;" but that such was not the case is proved by the number of narratives which turn on uncalled-for parental cursing.

Who acts: Vril, number, narratives · What happens: suppose, silence, render, not be, prove, turn on · To what, where: word, fearful efficacy, war, such case · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vril, number, narratives), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 supposed	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 supposed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 supposed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 supposed	aux:pass
5	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 silenced	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 efficacy	det
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 efficacy	amod
9	efficacy	efficacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 silenced	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 imprecation	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 imprecation	det:predet
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 imprecation	det
13	imprecation	imprecation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 efficacy	nmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 silenced	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 silenced	aux
16	silenced	silence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 supposed	ccomp
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 language	amod
18	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 silenced	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 that	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 silenced	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 rendered	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rendered	det
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 rendered	punct
25	Vril	Vril	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 rendered	nsubj
26	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Vril	flat
27	rendered	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 that	conj
28	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rendered	obj
29	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 war	amod
30	among	among	ADP	_	34 ya	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ya	det
32	Vril	Vril	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 ya	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Vril	punct
34	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 impossible	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 Race	case
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 Race	punct
37	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Race	det
38	Coming	Coming	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Race	compound
39	Race	Race	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 ya	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 proved	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 proved	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 proved	cc
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 proved	mark
44	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 case	amod
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 case	cop
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 case	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 case	det
48	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 proved	nsubj:pass
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 proved	aux:pass
50	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rendered	conj
51	by	by	ADP	_	53 number	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 number	det
53	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 proved	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 narratives	case
55	narratives	narrative	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 number	nmod
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 turn	nsubj
57	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 narratives	acl:relcl
58	on	on	ADP	_	57 turn	compound:prt
59	uncalled	uncalled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 turn	xcomp
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 uncalled	punct
61	for	for	ADP	_	63 cursing	case
62	parental	parental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 cursing	amod
63	cursing	cursing	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 turn	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 supposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	might · perfect · passive		word		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	silence	would · perfect · passive		the fearful efficacy of such imprecation		tree rules
3	render	past	Vril	war		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme
4	not is a	past		the such case		tree rules
5	prove	present · passive	the number of narratives	the such case		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
6	turn on	present	narratives		for parental cursing; uncalled property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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