Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 74

The same devices are in almost all cases resorted to, and their effect is invariable.

Who acts: same devices, effect, cases · What happens: be, resort, effect · To what, where: cases

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 (same devices, effect, cases), 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 devices	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 devices	amod
3	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 resorted	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cases	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 cases	case
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 cases	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 cases	det
8	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 resorted	nsubj
9	resorted	resort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 resorted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 invariable	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 invariable	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 effect	nmod:poss
14	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 invariable	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 invariable	cop
16	invariable	invariable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 resorted	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 resorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present		all cases	almost property	tree rules
2	resort	past	the same devices			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	cases's effect		invariable property	tree rules
4	effect		cases = case			nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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