Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 108
_ In Professor Sypherd’s studies on Chaucer’s _House of Fame_, Chaucer Society, 1904, a most valuable note will be found on revolving houses.
Who acts: Chaucer Society, Sypherd · What happens: find, revolve, study · To what, where: valuable note, revolving houses, _, _ House
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chaucer Society, Sypherd), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 studies | case |
| 3 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sypherd | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Sypherd | Sypherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 studies | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sypherd | case |
| 6 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 _ | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 House | case |
| 8 | Chaucer | Chaucer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 House | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Chaucer | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 House | compound |
| 11 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 studies | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fame | case |
| 13 | Fame | Fame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 House | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 House | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Society | punct |
| 16 | Chaucer | Chaucer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Society | compound |
| 17 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 House | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1904 | punct |
| 19 | 1904 | 1904 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Society | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 note | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 valuable | advmod |
| 23 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 note | amod |
| 24 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 found | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 found | aux:pass |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Society | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 houses | case |
| 29 | revolving | revolve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 houses | amod |
| 30 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 found | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future · passive | Chaucer Society not said here | a valuable note | revolving houses | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | revolve | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | study | Sypherd Professor | Chaucer's _ House of Fame and Chaucer Society | nom study «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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