Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 72
There are some few satires; but the large majority cannot be readily classified.
Who acts: few satires · What happens: be, not classify · To what, where: large majority
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 (few satires), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 satires | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 satires | amod |
| 5 | satires | satire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 classified | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 classified | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 majority | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 majority | amod |
| 10 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 classified | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 classified | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 classified | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 classified | aux:pass |
| 14 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 15 classified | advmod |
| 15 | classified | classify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 are | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | some few satires | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not classify | can · passive | the large majority | readily property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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