🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 29

Secondly, the ballads or _bylíny_; epic songs in an ancient metre, narrating historical episodes as they occur; and also comprising a cycle of heroic romance, comparable with the _chansons de geste_ of Charlemagne, the cycles of Finn and Cuchúlain of the Irish, and possibly with the little minor epics out of which it is supposed that some supreme Greek genius built up the artistic epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Who acts: episodes, ballads, some, supreme Greek genius · What happens: narrate, occur, comprise, suppose, genius, build up · To what, where: historical episodes, cycle, little minor epics, artistic epics, ballads

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 (episodes, ballads, some, supreme Greek genius), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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