Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 20

It possesses a noble literature, numerous folk-songs, not inferior even to those of Serbia, and, what chiefly concerns us now, a copious collection of justly admired folk-tales, many of them of great antiquity, which are regarded, both in Russia and Poland, as quite unique of their kind.

Who acts: Sea · What happens: possess, concern, admire, regard · To what, where: noble literature, us, great antiquity

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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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	2 possesses	nsubj
2	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 literature	det
4	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 literature	amod
5	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possesses	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 songs	punct
7	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 songs	amod
8	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 songs	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 folk	punct
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 literature	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inferior	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 inferior	advmod
13	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 songs	amod
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 those	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 those	case
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 inferior	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Serbia	case
18	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 those	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 concerns	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 concerns	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 concerns	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 concerns	nsubj
23	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 concerns	amod
24	concerns	concern	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 possesses	obl
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 concerns	nmod
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 concerns	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 collection	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 collection	det
29	copious	copious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 collection	amod
30	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 concerns	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	36 tales	case
32	justly	justly	ADV	_	33 admired	advmod
33	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 tales	amod
34	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tales	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 folk	punct
36	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 collection	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 many	punct
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tales	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 many	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 antiquity	case
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 antiquity	amod
43	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 many	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 regarded	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 regarded	nsubj:pass
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 regarded	aux:pass
47	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 antiquity	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Russia	punct
49	both	both	CCONJ	_	51 Russia	cc:preconj
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 Russia	case
51	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 regarded	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 Poland	cc
53	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Russia	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 unique	punct
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 unique	mark
56	quite	quite	ADV	_	57 unique	advmod
57	unique	unique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 regarded	conj
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 kind	case
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 kind	nmod:poss
60	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 unique	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 possesses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present	Sea	a noble literature			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot literature=Theme
2	concern			us	now		tree rules
3	admire	participle				justly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	regard	present · passive		great antiquity			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme russia=Attribute

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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