Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 62
But the Russian Christ of the folk-tales is a good, just, honest peasant, with democratic sympathies, and plenty of humour.
Who acts: Russian Christ · 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 (Russian Christ), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 good | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Christ | det |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Christ | amod |
| 4 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 good | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tales | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tales | det |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Christ | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 good | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 peasant | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 peasant | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 peasant | punct |
| 16 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 peasant | amod |
| 17 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 good | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sympathies | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sympathies | case |
| 20 | democratic | democratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sympathies | amod |
| 21 | sympathies | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 peasant | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 plenty | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 plenty | cc |
| 24 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peasant | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 humour | case |
| 26 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plenty | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Russian Christ of the folk tales | honest peasant and democratic sympathies and plenty of humour obl; good 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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