Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 97
The Russian peasants still believe that all people who drink themselves to death are used as carriers of wood and water in the infernal regions.
Who acts: Russian peasants, people · What happens: believe, drink, use · To what, where: People, infernal regions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 peasants, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasants | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 peasants | amod |
| 3 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 used | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 drink | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | obl |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 used | aux:pass |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 carriers | case |
| 17 | carriers | carrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carriers | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 water | cc |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wood | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 regions | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 regions | det |
| 24 | infernal | infernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 regions | amod |
| 25 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | the Russian peasants | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drink | present | all people | People | to death | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 3 | use | present · passive | all people | the infernal regions | as carriers of wood and water | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as carrier=Attribute |
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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