Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 56
But among the Northern Slavonians, as well as the Lithuanians, the sun was regarded as a female being, the bride of the moon. "
Who acts: female · What happens: regard · To what, where: Northern Slavonians
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (female), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 regarded | cc |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 Slavonians | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Slavonians | det |
| 4 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Slavonians | amod |
| 5 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lithuanians | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 11 Lithuanians | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lithuanians | det |
| 11 | Lithuanians | Lithuanian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Slavonians | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 regarded | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 regarded | aux:pass |
| 16 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 female | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 female | det |
| 19 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 regarded | obl:agent |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 female | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bride | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bride | det |
| 23 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 female | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 moon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bride | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 regarded | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | past · passive | a female | the Northern Slavonians as the Lithuanians | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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