Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 22

In the Nóvgorod ballads there is a mention of Father Volkhov, much as we speak of Father Thames, and there were very great possibilities of the development of a river mythology which did not succeed.

Who acts: mention, we, great possibilities, river mythology · What happens: be, speak, not succeed, mention, develop · To what, where: Nóvgorod ballads, Father, river mythology · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mention, we, great possibilities, river mythology), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 ballads	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ballads	det
3	Nóvgorod	Nóvgorod	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ballads	compound
4	ballads	ballad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 is	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mention	det
8	mention	mention	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Father	case
10	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mention	nmod
11	Volkhov	Volkhov	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Father	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
13	much	much	ADV	_	16 speak	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 speak	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 speak	nsubj
16	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 is	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Thames	case
18	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Thames	compound
19	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 speak	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 were	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 were	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 speak	conj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 great	advmod
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 possibilities	amod
26	possibilities	possibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 were	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 development	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 development	det
29	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 possibilities	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 mythology	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mythology	det
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mythology	compound
33	mythology	mythology	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 development	nmod
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 succeed	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 succeed	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 succeed	advmod
37	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 mythology	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a mention of Father		the Nóvgorod ballads; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ballad=Location
2	speak speech: other	present	we			of Father Thames	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	great possibilities of the development of a river mythology		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not succeed	past · do-support	a river mythology				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mention			Father			nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	develop			a river mythology			nom development «act 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 22