Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 82

[92] When such tales as these came west in Christian times, their references to polygamy were constantly suppressed, and their distinctions between brothers and half-brothers disappeared.

Who acts: such tales, Christian times, distinctions, brothers · What happens: come, suppress, disappear, refer, distinguish · To what, where: 92, references

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such tales, Christian times, distinctions, brothers), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 92	punct
2	92	92	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 came	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 92	punct
4	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tales	amod
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 these	case
8	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 tales	nmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	west	west	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 times	case
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 references	punct
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 references	nmod:poss
16	references	reference	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 suppressed	nsubj:pass
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 polygamy	case
18	polygamy	polygamy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 references	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 suppressed	aux:pass
20	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	21 suppressed	advmod
21	suppressed	suppress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 times	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 disappeared	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 disappeared	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 distinctions	nmod:poss
25	distinctions	distinction	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 disappeared	nsubj
26	between	between	ADP	_	27 brothers	case
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 distinctions	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 brothers	cc
29	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 brothers	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 half	punct
31	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 distinctions	conj
32	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	such tales as these	92	time	west property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	suppress	past · passive	Christian times not said here	brothers's references to polygamy		constantly property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	disappear	past	brothers's distinctions between brothers and half brothers				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	refer		brothers = brother			to polygamy	nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
5	distinguish		brothers = brother			between brothers	nom distinction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent between=obl

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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