Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 38
From the earliest Chronicles to the most modern fiction, this factualism characterizes Russian work.
Who acts: factualism · What happens: characterize · To what, where: Russian work, earliest Chronicles
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 (factualism), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 Chronicles | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Chronicles | det |
| 3 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Chronicles | amod |
| 4 | Chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 characterizes | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fiction | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fiction | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 modern | advmod |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fiction | amod |
| 9 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Chronicles | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Chronicles | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 factualism | det |
| 12 | factualism | factualism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 characterizes | nsubj |
| 13 | characterizes | characterize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 work | amod |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 characterizes | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 characterizes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characterize | present | this factualism | Russian work | the earliest Chronicles to the modern fiction | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
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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