Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 18
The principal source for Russian folk-tales is the great collection of Afanáśev, a coeval of Rybnikov, Kirěyevski, Sakharov, Bezsonov, and others who all from about 1850 to 1870 laboriously took down from the lips of the peasants of all parts of Russia what they could of the endless store of traditional song, ballad, and folk-tale.
Who acts: principal source, others · What happens: be, take down · To what, where: great collection, others, 1850
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (principal source, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 source | det |
| 2 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 source | amod |
| 3 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collection | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 tales | case |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tales | amod |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tales | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 source | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 collection | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 collection | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 collection | amod |
| 12 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Afanáśev | case |
| 14 | Afanáśev | Afanáśev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 collection | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 coeval | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 coeval | det |
| 17 | coeval | coeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Afanáśev | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Rybnikov | case |
| 19 | Rybnikov | Rybnikov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 coeval | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kirěyevski | punct |
| 21 | Kirěyevski | Kirěyevski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rybnikov | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sakharov | punct |
| 23 | Sakharov | Sakharov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rybnikov | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Bezsonov | punct |
| 25 | Bezsonov | Bezsonov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rybnikov | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 others | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 others | cc |
| 28 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 collection | conj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 took | nsubj |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 1850 | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 1850 | case |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 1850 | advmod |
| 33 | 1850 | 1850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 took | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 1870 | case |
| 35 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 1850 | nmod |
| 36 | laboriously | laboriously | ADV | _ | 37 took | advmod |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 others | acl:relcl |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 37 took | compound:prt |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 lips | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lips | det |
| 41 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 took | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 peasants | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 peasants | det |
| 44 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lips | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 parts | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 parts | det |
| 47 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 peasants | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Russia | case |
| 49 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 parts | nmod |
| 50 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 took | obj |
| 51 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 could | nsubj |
| 52 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 what | acl:relcl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 store | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 store | det |
| 55 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 store | amod |
| 56 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 could | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 song | case |
| 58 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 song | amod |
| 59 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 store | nmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 ballad | punct |
| 61 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 song | conj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 tale | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 tale | cc |
| 64 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 tale | compound |
| 65 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 64 folk | punct |
| 66 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obl |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 collection | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the principal source for Russian folk tales | the great collection and others | of Afanáśev; others conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take down | past | others | others | 1850 to 1870 | from the lips of the peasants of all parts of Russia; folk tale obl; laboriously property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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