Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 79

But Bulgaria, Little-Russia, Serbia, Bohemia, and all the Slav countries have similar compilations; and every one of these nationalities is as strongly individualized, as are, say, the Danes, the Dutch, and the Germans.

Who acts: Bulgaria · What happens: have, individualize, be, say · To what, where: similar compilations, one, Danes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bulgaria), 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	_	17 have	cc
2	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Russia	punct
4	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Russia	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Little	punct
6	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bulgaria	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Serbia	punct
8	Serbia	Serbia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bulgaria	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Bohemia	punct
10	Bohemia	bohemia	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bulgaria	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 countries	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 countries	det
15	Slav	Slav	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 countries	compound
16	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 compilations	amod
19	compilations	compilation	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 individualized	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 individualized	cc
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 individualized	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 nationalities	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 nationalities	det
26	nationalities	nationality	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 individualized	aux
28	as	as	ADV	_	30 individualized	advmod
29	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	30 individualized	advmod
30	individualized	individualize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 have	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 are	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 are	mark
33	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 individualized	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 say	punct
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 are	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Danes	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Danes	det
38	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 say	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Dutch	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Dutch	det
41	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Danes	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Germans	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Germans	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Germans	det
45	Germans	German	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 have	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bulgaria and Little Russia and Serbia	similar compilations	all Slav countries nsubj; the Germans conj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compilation=Patient
2	individualize	present · passive		every one of this nationalities	strongly property	tree rules
3	be	present				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	infinitive		the Danes		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dane=Topic

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 79