Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 25
The memory of them subsisted; the fear of these local gods degenerated into superstition; the magic of the folk-tales becomes half-fantastic, half-conventional, belief in which is surreptitious, usual, and optional.
Who acts: magic · What happens: subsist, degenerate, become, be, fear · To what, where: memory, local gods, superstition, belief
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 (magic), 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 | 2 memory | det |
| 2 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 subsisted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 memory | nmod |
| 5 | subsisted | subsist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fear | det |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 subsisted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gods | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 gods | det |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gods | amod |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fear | nmod |
| 13 | degenerated | degenerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gods | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 superstition | case |
| 15 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 degenerated | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 becomes | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magic | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 becomes | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tales | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tales | det |
| 21 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tales | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 folk | punct |
| 23 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 magic | nmod |
| 24 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 subsisted | conj |
| 25 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 27 fantastic | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 half | punct |
| 27 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 becomes | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 conventional | punct |
| 29 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 31 conventional | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 half | punct |
| 31 | conventional | conventional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 becomes | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 belief | punct |
| 33 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conventional | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 surreptitious | obl |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 surreptitious | cop |
| 37 | surreptitious | surreptitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 belief | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 usual | punct |
| 39 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 surreptitious | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 optional | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 optional | cc |
| 42 | optional | optional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 surreptitious | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 subsisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subsist | participle · passive | the memory of cults | the fear of this local gods obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | degenerate | participle | this local gods not said here | superstition | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | present | the magic of the folk tales | fantastic property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | belief | surreptitious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | fear | this local gods | nom fear «feeling 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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