Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 144

To Likho is always attributed a character of unmitigated malevolence, and a similar disposition is ascribed by the songs of the people to another being in whom the idea of misfortune is personified.

Who acts: songs, people · What happens: attribute, ascribe, be, personify, sing · To what, where: character, Likho, similar disposition, idea

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (songs, 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 Likho	case
2	Likho	Likho	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 attributed	obl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 attributed	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 attributed	advmod
5	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 character	det
7	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attributed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 malevolence	case
9	unmitigated	unmitigated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 malevolence	amod
10	malevolence	malevolence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 character	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ascribed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ascribed	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 disposition	det
14	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 disposition	amod
15	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ascribed	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ascribed	aux:pass
17	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 attributed	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 songs	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 songs	det
20	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ascribed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 songs	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 whom	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 whom	det
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 whom	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 whom	case
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 people	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 idea	det
30	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 personified	nsubj:pass
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 misfortune	case
32	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 idea	nmod
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 personified	aux:pass
34	personified	personify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 whom	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 attributed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	attribute	present · passive		a character of unmitigated malevolence	Likho	always property	tree rules
2	ascribe	present · passive	the songs of the people	a similar disposition			tree rules
3	is	gerund	the people not said here			to the songs of the people	tree rules
4	personify	present · passive		the idea of misfortune			tree rules
5	sing		the people				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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