Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 36
They are, in the first place, characterized by the so-called realism that tinges all Russian literature; a better word would be factualism, as realism is associated with the anti-romanticism that accentuates material facts and seeks to obliterate moral factors.
Who acts: divergencies, called realism, better word, anti-romanticism · What happens: be, characterize, call, tinge, associate, accentuate · To what, where: first place, Russian literature, factualism, realism, material facts, moral factors · 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 (divergencies, called realism, better word, anti-romanticism), 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 | 7 place | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 characterized | punct |
| 9 | characterized | characterize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 place | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 realism | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 realism | det |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 called | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 so | punct |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 realism | amod |
| 15 | realism | realism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 characterized | obl:agent |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 tinges | nsubj |
| 17 | tinges | tinge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 realism | acl:relcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 literature | det |
| 19 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 literature | amod |
| 20 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tinges | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 factualism | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 word | amod |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 factualism | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 factualism | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 factualism | cop |
| 27 | factualism | factualism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 associated | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 associated | mark |
| 30 | realism | realism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 associated | aux:pass |
| 32 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 factualism | parataxis |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 anti-romanticism | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 anti-romanticism | det |
| 35 | anti-romanticism | anti-romanticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 associated | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 accentuates | nsubj |
| 37 | accentuates | accentuate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 anti-romanticism | acl:relcl |
| 38 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 facts | compound |
| 39 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 accentuates | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 seeks | cc |
| 41 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 accentuates | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 obliterate | mark |
| 43 | obliterate | obliterate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 seeks | xcomp |
| 44 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 factors | amod |
| 45 | factors | factor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 obliterate | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | divergencies = divergency | the first place and factualism | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | characterize | participle | the first place and factualism not said here | the called realism obl:agent | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tinge | present | the called realism | all Russian literature | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme literature=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is a | would | a better word | factualism | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | associate | present · passive | realism | with the anti-romanticism | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with anti-romanticism=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | accentuate | present | the anti-romanticism | material facts | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | seek | present | the anti-romanticism not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | obliterate not said to happen | to-infinitive | the anti-romanticism not said here | moral factors | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factor=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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