Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 28
First of all, the Chronicles, which are very full, very accurate, and, within the limits of the temporary concepts of possibility and science, absolutely true.
Who acts: Chronicles · What happens: be, conceive · To what, where: Chronicles, possibility
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 (Chronicles), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Chronicles | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 First | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Chronicles | det |
| 6 | Chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 full | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 full | advmod |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Chronicles | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accurate | punct |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 accurate | advmod |
| 14 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 full | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 limits | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 limits | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 limits | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 limits | det |
| 20 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 accurate | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 concepts | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 concepts | det |
| 23 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 concepts | amod |
| 24 | concepts | concept | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 limits | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 possibility | case |
| 26 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 concepts | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 science | cc |
| 28 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 possibility | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 true | punct |
| 30 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 31 true | advmod |
| 31 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 science | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chronicles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Chronicles | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Chronicles not said here | within the limits of the temporary concepts of possibility and science | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | conceive | possibility and science | nom concept «cognition 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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