Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 34

It may be so, but, after all that Mr Andrew Lang has taught us on the subject, it would be rash for any mere philologist to assert positively that there can be anything really new in folk-lore under the sun. On the other hand, the comparative isolation and primitiveness of the Cossacks, and their remoteness from the great theatres of historical events, would seem to be favourable conditions both for the safe preservation of old myths and the easy development of new ones.

Who acts: variety · What happens: be, teach, assert, seem, isolate, preserve · To what, where: that, us, subject, positively, favourable conditions, Cossacks

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 (variety), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 so	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 so	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 so	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 but	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 taught	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 but	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 taught	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 taught	det:predet
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 taught	nsubj:pass
11	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taught	nsubj:pass
12	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mr	flat
13	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Andrew	flat
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 taught	aux
15	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 so	conj
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 taught	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 subject	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 subject	det
19	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taught	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rash	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rash	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 rash	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 rash	cop
24	rash	rash	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 taught	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 philologist	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 philologist	det
27	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 philologist	amod
28	philologist	philologist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rash	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 assert	mark
30	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 rash	advcl
31	positively	positively	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 assert	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 be	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 be	expl
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 assert	advcl
36	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 be	nsubj
37	really	really	ADV	_	38 new	advmod
38	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 anything	amod
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 lore	case
40	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lore	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 folk	punct
42	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 new	obl
43	under	under	ADP	_	45 sun.	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun.	det
45	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lore	nmod
46	On	on	ADP	_	49 hand	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 hand	det
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 hand	amod
49	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sun.	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 isolation	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 isolation	det
52	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 isolation	amod
53	isolation	isolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hand	appos
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 primitiveness	cc
55	primitiveness	primitiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 isolation	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 Cossacks	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Cossacks	det
58	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	53 isolation	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 remoteness	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 remoteness	cc
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 remoteness	nmod:poss
62	remoteness	remoteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 Cossacks	appos
63	from	from	ADP	_	66 theatres	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 theatres	det
65	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 theatres	amod
66	theatres	theatre	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 remoteness	nmod
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 events	case
68	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 events	amod
69	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 theatres	nmod
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 seem	punct
71	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 seem	aux
72	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 assert	conj
73	to	to	PART	_	76 conditions	mark
74	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	76 conditions	cop
75	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 conditions	amod
76	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 seem	xcomp
77	both	both	ADV	_	81 preservation	advmod
78	for	for	ADP	_	81 preservation	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 preservation	det
80	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 preservation	amod
81	preservation	preservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 conditions	nmod
82	of	of	ADP	_	84 myths	case
83	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 myths	amod
84	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 preservation	nmod
85	and	and	CCONJ	_	88 development	cc
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	88 development	det
87	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 development	amod
88	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 preservation	conj
89	of	of	ADP	_	91 ones	case
90	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	91 ones	amod
91	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	88 development	nmod
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 so	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	may	variety				so property	tree rules
2	teach speech: other	present · perfect · passive		that	us	the subject		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=Topic
3	is	would	variety				for any mere philologist; rash property	tree rules
4	assert	to-infinitive	variety not said here	positively				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent positively=Theme
5	seem	would	variety not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	variety not said here	favourable conditions			for the safe preservation of old myths and the easy development of new ones	tree rules
7	isolate			the Cossacks				nom isolation «state transitive»: of=patient
8	preserve			old myths				nom preservation «act transitive»: of=patient
9	develop			new ones				nom development «act 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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