Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 128
There is a touch of friendly familiarity in this presentation which does not involve the least irreverence, but adds a touch of sarcastic humour which the Germans lack.
Who acts: touch, presentation, Germans · What happens: be, not involve, add, lack, touch · To what, where: least irreverence, touch, sarcastic humour, friendly familiarity
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 (touch, presentation, Germans), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 touch | det |
| 4 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 familiarity | case |
| 6 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 familiarity | amod |
| 7 | familiarity | familiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touch | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 presentation | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 presentation | det |
| 10 | presentation | presentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 familiarity | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 involve | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 involve | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 involve | advmod |
| 14 | involve | involve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 presentation | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 irreverence | det |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 irreverence | amod |
| 17 | irreverence | irreverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 involve | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 adds | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 adds | cc |
| 20 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 touch | det |
| 22 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 adds | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 humour | case |
| 24 | sarcastic | sarcastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 humour | amod |
| 25 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 touch | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 lack | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Germans | det |
| 28 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 lack | nsubj |
| 29 | lack | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 humour | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a touch of friendly familiarity in this presentation | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not involve | present · do-support | this presentation | the least irreverence | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent irreverence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present | a touch of friendly familiarity in this presentation not said here | a touch of sarcastic humour | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lack | present | the Germans | sarcastic humour | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | touch | friendly familiarity in this presentation | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | touch | sarcastic humour | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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