Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 19

These great collectors were actuated only by the desire for accuracy; they appended laboriously erudite notes; but they were not literary men and did not sophisticate, or improve on their material.

Who acts: desire, collectors · What happens: actuate, append, not be, not sophisticate, improve · To what, where: great collectors, erudite notes, literary men, material

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 (desire, collectors), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 collectors	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 collectors	amod
3	collectors	collector	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 actuated	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 actuated	aux:pass
5	actuated	actuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 desire	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 desire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desire	det
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 actuated	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 accuracy	case
11	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 desire	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 appended	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 appended	nsubj
14	appended	append	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 actuated	conj
15	laboriously	laboriously	ADV	_	16 erudite	advmod
16	erudite	erudite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 notes	amod
17	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 appended	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 men	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 men	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 men	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 men	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 men	advmod
23	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 actuated	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sophisticate	cc
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sophisticate	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 sophisticate	advmod
28	sophisticate	sophisticate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 actuated	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 improve	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 improve	cc
31	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 actuated	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 material	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 material	nmod:poss
34	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 improve	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 actuated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	actuate	past · passive	the desire for accuracy	this great collectors		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	append	past	collectors = collector	erudite notes		tree rules
3	not is a	past	collectors = collector	literary men		tree rules
4	not sophisticate	past · do-support	the desire for accuracy not said here			tree rules
5	improve	infinitive	the desire for accuracy not said here		collectors's material	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 19