Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 31

They are not bare records of fact, like the Chronicles; imagination enters into their scope; non-human, miraculous incidents are allowable; their content is not a matter for faith or factual record; they may be called historical fiction, which, broadly taken, corresponded to actual events, and typified the national strivings and ideals.

Who acts: individuals, imagination, non-human miraculous incidents, content, matter · What happens: not be, enter, be, call, take, correspond · To what, where: bare records, scope, matter, individuals, historical fiction, national strivings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (individuals, imagination, non-human miraculous incidents, content), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 records	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 records	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 records	advmod
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 records	amod
5	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fact	case
7	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 records	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Chronicles	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 Chronicles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Chronicles	det
11	Chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 records	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 enters	punct
13	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 enters	nsubj
14	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 records	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 scope	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 scope	nmod:poss
17	scope	scope	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 enters	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 allowable	punct
19	non-human	non-human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 incidents	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 non-human	punct
21	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 incidents	amod
22	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 allowable	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 allowable	cop
24	allowable	allowable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 records	parataxis
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 matter	punct
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 content	nmod:poss
27	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 matter	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 matter	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 matter	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 matter	det
31	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 allowable	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 faith	case
33	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 matter	nmod
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 record	cc
35	factual	factual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 record	amod
36	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 faith	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 called	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 called	nsubj:pass
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 called	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 called	aux:pass
41	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 matter	acl
42	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fiction	amod
43	fiction	fiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 called	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 taken	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 taken	nsubj:pass
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 taken	punct
47	broadly	broadly	ADV	_	48 taken	advmod
48	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 fiction	acl:relcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 corresponded	punct
50	corresponded	correspond	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 taken	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 events	case
52	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 events	amod
53	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 corresponded	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 typified	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 typified	cc
56	typified	typify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 allowable	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 strivings	det
58	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 strivings	amod
59	strivings	striving	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 typified	obj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 ideals	cc
61	ideals	ideal	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 strivings	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 records	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	individuals = individual	bare records and the Chronicles		of fact; the Chronicles conj	tree rules
2	enter	present	imagination		individuals's scope		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into scope=Initial_Location
3	is	present	non-human miraculous incidents			allowable property	tree rules
4	not is a	present	individuals's content	a matter		for faith or factual record	tree rules
5	call	may · passive	a matter not said here	individuals = individual		historical fiction xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	take	participle · passive		historical fiction		broadly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	correspond	participle				to actual events	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	typify	past	non-human miraculous incidents not said here	the national strivings and ideals			tree rules

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 31

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 31