Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 28
He is always of popular origin and, as such, at variance with the semi-Scandinavian Court.
Who acts: _ · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 origin | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 origin | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 origin | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 origin | case |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 origin | amod |
| 6 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 variance | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 variance | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 variance | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 variance | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 variance | case |
| 13 | variance | variance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 origin | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Court | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Court | det |
| 16 | semi-Scandinavian | semi-scandinavian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Court | amod |
| 17 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 variance | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 origin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | _ | of popular origin and such variance with the semi-Scandinavian Court; such variance with the semi-Scandinavian Court conj; always property | tree rules |
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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