Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 51
To sum up, these undiluted products of the Russian people are a faithful mirroring of life, as it appeared, casual; for the most part unfortunate, and inscrutable.
Who acts: undiluted products, it · What happens: sum up, undilut, be, appear · To what, where: faithful mirroring
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 (undiluted products, it), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 sum | mark |
| 2 | sum | sum | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sum | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 products | punct |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 products | det |
| 6 | undiluted | undilut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 products | amod |
| 7 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mirroring | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 products | nmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mirroring | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mirroring | det |
| 14 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mirroring | amod |
| 15 | mirroring | mirroring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sum | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mirroring | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appeared | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 appeared | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 appeared | nsubj |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sum | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 casual | punct |
| 23 | casual | casual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 appeared | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 unfortunate | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 part | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 part | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 part | amod |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 unfortunate | obl |
| 29 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sum | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 inscrutable | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 inscrutable | cc |
| 32 | inscrutable | inscrutable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 unfortunate | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sum up | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | undilut | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | this undiluted products of the Russian people | a faithful mirroring | of life | tree rules | |||
| 4 | appear | past | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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