Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 74
Artless as these stories are, there are a few peculiar conventions in the narration.
Who acts: stories, few peculiar conventions · 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 (stories, few peculiar conventions), 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 | Artless | artless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 are | mark |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 are | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 are | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 are | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Artless | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 conventions | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conventions | amod |
| 11 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conventions | amod |
| 12 | conventions | convention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 narration | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 narration | det |
| 15 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conventions | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Artless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | this stories | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | does | present | a few peculiar conventions in the narration | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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