Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 20

But, before venturing on a brief account of the tales, something must be premised as to the position occupied by folk-tales in the cultural development of a people.

Who acts: tales · What happens: venture, premise, occupy, account, develop · To what, where: brief account, something, position, tales, people

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 (tales), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 venturing	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 venturing	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 venturing	mark
4	venturing	venture	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 account	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 account	det
7	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 account	amod
8	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 venturing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tales	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tales	det
11	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 account	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 premised	punct
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 premised	nsubj:pass
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 premised	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 premised	aux:pass
16	premised	premise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tales	acl
17	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 position	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 position	det
20	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 premised	obl
21	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 position	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 tales	case
23	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tales	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 folk	punct
25	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 occupied	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 development	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 development	det
28	cultural	cultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 development	amod
29	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tales	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 development	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 venturing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	venture	gerund			a brief account of the tales		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	premise	must · passive	the tales not said here	something		as the position	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	occupy	participle		the position not said here		by folk tales in the cultural development of a people	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	account			the tales			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	develop			a people			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: «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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 20