Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 7
In their village it was customary to celebrate the feast of St. Andrew the First-Called (November 30).
Who acts: couple · What happens: be, celebrate, call · To what, where: customary, village, feast, Andrew · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 village | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 village | nmod:poss |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 customary | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 customary | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 customary | cop |
| 6 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 celebrate | mark |
| 8 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 customary | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 celebrate | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Andrew | case |
| 12 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Andrew | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 feast | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Called | det |
| 15 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 Called | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 First | punct |
| 17 | Called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Andrew | acl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 November | punct |
| 19 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Called | xcomp |
| 20 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 November | flat |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 November | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 customary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | couple | customary | sources's village | tree rules | |||
| 2 | celebrate | to-infinitive | the feast of Andrew St. | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | Andrew St. not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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