Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 46

This unconsciously involves a perfect art with regard to detail; so much is told as a man would remember of an experience; there is no striving after impressionism, nor meticulous detail.

Who acts: This, man, striving · What happens: involve, tell, remember, be · To what, where: perfect art · 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 (This, man, striving), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 involves	nsubj
2	unconsciously	unconsciously	ADV	_	3 involves	advmod
3	involves	involve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 art	det
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 art	amod
6	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 involves	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 regard	case
8	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 art	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 detail	case
10	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regard	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	15 told	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux:pass
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 involves	conj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 remember	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remember	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 remember	aux
20	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 experience	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 experience	det
23	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remember	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 is	expl
26	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 involves	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 striving	det
28	striving	striving	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 is	nsubj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 impressionism	case
30	impressionism	impressionism	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 striving	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 detail	punct
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 detail	cc
33	meticulous	meticulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 detail	amod
34	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 involves	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 involves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	involve	present	This	a perfect art		with regard to detail; meticulous detail obl; unconsciously property	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive	This not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic
3	remember not said to happen	would	a man			of a experience	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	be	present	no striving after impressionism		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 46