Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 57
The folk-tales are very various; some classes of them can be distinguished.
Who acts: folk tales, classes · What happens: be
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 (folk tales, classes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 folk | punct |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 various | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 various | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 various | advmod |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 distinguished | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 classes | det |
| 10 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 distinguished | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 classes | nmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 distinguished | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 distinguished | cop |
| 15 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 various | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 various | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the folk tales | various property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | can | some classes of TALES | distinguished property | 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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