Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 144

Priests are often nicknamed goats by the Russian peasantry, perhaps on account of their long beards.

Who acts: Russian peasantry · What happens: nickname, account · To what, where: Priests, long beards

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian peasantry), 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	Priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nicknamed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nicknamed	aux:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 nicknamed	advmod
4	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nicknamed	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 peasantry	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peasantry	det
8	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 peasantry	amod
9	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicknamed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 account	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 account	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 account	case
13	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peasantry	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 beards	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 beards	nmod:poss
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beards	amod
17	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 account	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nicknamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nickname	present · passive	the Russian peasantry	Priests				often property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	account			goats's long beards					nom account «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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