Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 78
Taking Russia alone, there are collections of magic formulas, ceremonial songs of Pagan origin, volumes of traditional ballads; and the ancient munic has also been recorded.
Who acts: collections, Pagan origin · What happens: take, be, record, sing · To what, where: Russia, ancient munic
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 (collections, Pagan origin), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 are | csubj |
| 2 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 Taking | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | collections | collection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 formulas | case |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 formulas | amod |
| 10 | formulas | formula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 collections | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 songs | punct |
| 12 | ceremonial | ceremonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 songs | amod |
| 13 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 formulas | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 origin | case |
| 15 | Pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 origin | amod |
| 16 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 songs | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 volumes | punct |
| 18 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 songs | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ballads | case |
| 20 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ballads | amod |
| 21 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 volumes | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 recorded | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 recorded | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 munic | det |
| 25 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 munic | amod |
| 26 | munic | munic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 recorded | aux |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 recorded | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 recorded | aux:pass |
| 30 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 are | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Russia | alone property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument russia=Destination | ||||
| 2 | does | present | collections of magic formulas and ceremonial songs of Pagan origin and volumes of traditional ballads | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | record | present · perfect · passive | the ancient munic | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing | Pagan origin | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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