Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 31
The present attempt to popularize these Cossack stories is, I believe, the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English.
Who acts: I · What happens: popularize, be, make · To what, where: Cossack stories, present attempt, Ruthenian
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 (I), 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 attempt | det |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attempt | amod |
| 3 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 popularize | mark |
| 5 | popularize | popularize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempt | acl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 stories | det |
| 7 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stories | compound |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 popularize | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attempt | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 translation | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 translation | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 translation | amod |
| 16 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 made | advmod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Ruthenian | case |
| 20 | Ruthenian | Ruthenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 English | case |
| 22 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | popularize | to-infinitive | this Cossack stories | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | the present attempt not said here | believe property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | participle · passive | the present attempt | Ruthenian | ever | into English | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into english=Product |
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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