Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 71
The demon rabble of "Popular Tales" are merely the lubber fiends of heathen mythology, beings endowed with supernatural might, but scantily provided with mental power; all of terrific manual clutch, but of weak intellectual grasp.
Who acts: demon rabble · What happens: be, endow, provide · To what, where: lubber fiends, beings
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon rabble), 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 | 3 rabble | det |
| 2 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rabble | compound |
| 3 | rabble | rabble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fiends | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Tales | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tales | punct |
| 6 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Tales | amod |
| 7 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rabble | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tales | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fiends | cop |
| 10 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 13 fiends | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fiends | det |
| 12 | lubber | lubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fiends | compound |
| 13 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mythology | case |
| 15 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mythology | amod |
| 16 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fiends | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beings | punct |
| 18 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fiends | conj |
| 19 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 beings | acl |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 might | mark |
| 21 | supernatural | supernatural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 might | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 endowed | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 provided | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 provided | cc |
| 25 | scantily | scantily | ADV | _ | 26 provided | advmod |
| 26 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fiends | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 power | case |
| 28 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 power | amod |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 provided | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 clutch | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 clutch | advmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 clutch | case |
| 33 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 clutch | amod |
| 34 | manual | manual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 clutch | amod |
| 35 | clutch | clutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fiends | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 grasp | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 grasp | cc |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 grasp | case |
| 39 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 grasp | amod |
| 40 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 grasp | amod |
| 41 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 clutch | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fiends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the demon rabble of Popular Tales | the lubber fiends and beings and terrific manual clutch but weak intellectual grasp | of heathen mythology; merely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | endow | participle | beings not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | provide | participle | with mental power; scantily property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with power=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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