Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 27
Like Linnroet among the Finns, Rudchenko took down the greater part of these tales direct from the lips of the people.
Who acts: Rudchenko, tales · What happens: take down, direct · To what, where: greater part, lips
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 (Rudchenko, tales), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 Linnroet | case |
| 2 | Linnroet | Linnroet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 Finns | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Finns | det |
| 5 | Finns | Finn | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Linnroet | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Linnroet | punct |
| 7 | Rudchenko | Rudchenko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 11 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 part | amod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tales | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 tales | det |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 direct | nsubj |
| 16 | direct | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 part | acl:relcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 lips | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lips | det |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 direct | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 people | det |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lips | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past | Rudchenko | the greater part | like Linnroet among the Finns | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 2 | direct | present | this tales | the greater part not said here | the lips of the people | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
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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