Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 39

From them he obtained a shipload of incense in exchange for his gold, and he strewed the incense along the strand, and burnt it in honor of God.

Who acts: orphan · What happens: obtain, strew, burnt, honor · To what, where: shipload, incense, strand, honor, God

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orphan), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 them	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obtained	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obtained	nsubj
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shipload	det
6	shipload	shipload	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 incense	case
8	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shipload	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 exchange	case
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 incense	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 gold	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gold	nmod:poss
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchange	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strewed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strewed	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 strewed	nsubj
17	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obtained	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 incense	det
19	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strewed	obj
20	along	along	ADP	_	22 strand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 strand	det
22	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strewed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 burnt	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 burnt	cc
25	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obtained	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 burnt	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 honor	case
28	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 burnt	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 God	case
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 honor	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obtain	past	orphan	a shipload of incense in exchange for orphan's gold		from shipmen	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shipload=Theme from they=Source
2	strew	past	orphan	the incense	the strand		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent incense=Theme along strand=Destination
3	burnt	past	orphan not said here	incense	honor of God		tree rules
4	honor			God			nom honor «communication 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 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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