Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 25

Kulish, who has the merit of priority, was little more than a pioneer, his contribution merely consisting of some dozen _kazki_ (_Maerchen_) and _kazochiki_ (_Maerchenlein_), incorporated in the second volume of his _Zapiski o yuzhnoi Rusi_ ("Descriptions of South Russia," Petrograd, 1856-7).

Who acts: Kulish, contribution, selection · What happens: have, be, consist, incorporate, contribute, describe · To what, where: merit, kazki, contribution, second volume, South Russia

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 (Kulish, contribution, selection), 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	Kulish	Kulish	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 more	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Kulish	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merit	det
6	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 priority	case
8	priority	priority	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 merit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kulish	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 more	cop
11	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 pioneer	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pioneer	det
15	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 more	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 contribution	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 contribution	nmod:poss
18	contribution	contribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 more	obl
19	merely	merely	ADV	_	20 consisting	advmod
20	consisting	consist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 contribution	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 dozen	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 dozen	det
23	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 consisting	obl
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 kazki	punct
25	kazki	kazki	X	Foreign=Yes	20 consisting	obj
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 kazki	punct
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 Maerchen	punct
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 Maerchen	punct
29	Maerchen	Maerchen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 kazki	appos
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 Maerchen	punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 Maerchen	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kazochiki	cc
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 kazochiki	punct
34	kazochiki	kazochiki	X	Foreign=Yes	25 kazki	conj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 kazochiki	punct
36	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 Maerchenlein	punct
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Maerchenlein	punct
38	Maerchenlein	Maerchenlein	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 kazochiki	appos
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Maerchenlein	punct
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 Maerchenlein	punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 incorporated	punct
42	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 contribution	acl
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 volume	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 volume	det
45	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 volume	amod
46	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 incorporated	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 o	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 o	nmod:poss
49	_	_	PUNCT	_	51 o	punct
50	Zapiski	Zapiski	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 o	compound
51	o	o	X	_	46 volume	appos
52	yuzhnoi	yuzhnoi	X	Foreign=Yes	51 o	conj
53	Rusi	Rusi	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 yuzhnoi	flat
54	_	_	PUNCT	_	53 Rusi	punct
55	(	(	PUNCT	_	63 Petrograd	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 Descriptions	punct
57	Descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 Petrograd	nsubj
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 Russia	case
59	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Russia	compound
60	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Descriptions	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 Petrograd	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 Petrograd	punct
63	Petrograd	Petrograd	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Rusi	appos
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 1856-7	punct
65	1856-7	1856-7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	63 Petrograd	list
66	)	)	PUNCT	_	63 Petrograd	punct
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Kulish	the merit of priority			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Patient
2	is	past	Kulish			than a pioneer; selection's contribution obl; little, more property	tree rules
3	consist	gerund	selection's contribution not said here	kazki		of some dozen; merely property	tree rules
4	incorporate	participle		selection's contribution not said here	the second volume		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	contribute		selection				nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	describe in a quote			South Russia			nom description «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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