Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 75

The practice of cutting strips from an enemy's back is frequently referred to in the Skazkas--much more frequently than in the German and Norse stories.

What happens: refer, practice · To what, where: practice, Skazkas, cutting strips

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	2 practice	det
2	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 referred	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 strips	case
4	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strips	compound
5	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 practice	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 back	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 enemy	det
8	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 enemy	case
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strips	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 referred	aux:pass
12	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	13 referred	advmod
13	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 referred	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 Skazkas	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Skazkas	det
17	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 referred	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 stories	punct
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 frequently	advmod
21	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	28 stories	advmod
22	than	than	ADP	_	28 stories	case
23	in	in	ADP	_	28 stories	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stories	det
25	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stories	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Norse	cc
27	Norse	norse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 German	conj
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 referred	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 referred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refer	present · passive		the practice of cutting strips from a enemy's back		the Skazkas		frequently property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
2	practice			cutting strips from a enemy's back					nom practice «act 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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