Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 77
The Slav peoples conserved primitive Aryan customs almost up to the middle of the nineteenth century; and then these were industriously and conscientiously compiled.
Who acts: Slav peoples · What happens: conserve, compile · To what, where: primitive Aryan customs, these
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 (Slav peoples), 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 | 3 peoples | det |
| 2 | Slav | Slav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 peoples | compound |
| 3 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 conserved | nsubj |
| 4 | conserved | conserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 customs | amod |
| 6 | Aryan | Aryan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 customs | amod |
| 7 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 conserved | obj |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 middle | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 customs | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 century | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 century | det |
| 15 | nineteenth | nineteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 century | amod |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 compiled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 compiled | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 compiled | advmod |
| 20 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 compiled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 compiled | aux |
| 22 | industriously | industriously | ADV | _ | 25 compiled | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 compiled | cc |
| 24 | conscientiously | conscientiously | ADV | _ | 25 compiled | advmod |
| 25 | compiled | compile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 conserved | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conserve | past | the Slav peoples | primitive Aryan customs | up the middle of the nineteenth century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | compile | past · passive | these | then | conscientiously, industriously property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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