Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 61
To a very slight extent they are based on the Gospel.
Who acts: slight extent · What happens: base · To what, where: spirits, Gospel
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 (slight extent), 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 | ADP | _ | 5 extent | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 extent | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 slight | advmod |
| 4 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 extent | amod |
| 5 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 based | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 based | aux:pass |
| 8 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 extent | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Gospel | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gospel | det |
| 11 | Gospel | Gospel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 based | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | present · passive | a slight extent not said here | spirits = spirit | the Gospel | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on gospel=Source |
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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