Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 156

In one of the numerous legends which the Russian peasants hold in reverence, St. Petka or Friday appears among the other saints, and together with her is mentioned another canonized day, St. Nedelya or Sunday,[259] answering to the Greek St. Anastasia, to _Der heilige Sonntag_ of German peasant-hagiology.

Who acts: Russian peasants, Petka, canonized day · What happens: hold, appear, mention, canonize, answer · To what, where: numerous legends, reverence, St.

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. 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 (Russian peasants, Petka, canonized day), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 appears	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 legends	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 legends	det
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legends	amod
6	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hold	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peasants	det
9	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 peasants	amod
10	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hold	nsubj
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 legends	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 reverence	case
13	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
15	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Petka	nmod:desc
16	Petka	Petka	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 appears	nsubj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 Friday	cc
18	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Petka	conj
19	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	among	among	ADP	_	23 saints	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 saints	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 saints	amod
23	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 appears	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mentioned	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 mentioned	cc
26	together	together	ADV	_	30 mentioned	advmod
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	30 mentioned	mark
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 mentioned	nsubj:pass
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 mentioned	aux:pass
30	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 appears	advcl
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 day	det
32	canonized	canonize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mentioned	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Nedelya	punct
35	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Nedelya	nmod:desc
36	Nedelya	Nedelya	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 day	appos
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 Sunday	cc
38	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Nedelya	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 259	punct
40	[	[	PUNCT	_	41 259	punct
41	259	259	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 Nedelya	list
42	]	]	PUNCT	_	41 259	punct
43	answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 day	acl
44	to	to	ADP	_	48 Anastasia	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Anastasia	det
46	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Anastasia	compound
47	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Anastasia	nmod:desc
48	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 answering	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 heilige	punct
50	to	to	ADP	_	53 heilige	case
51	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 to	punct
52	Der	Der	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 heilige	compound
53	heilige	heilige	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mentioned	parataxis
54	Sonntag	Sonntag	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 heilige	appos
55	_	_	PUNCT	_	53 heilige	punct
56	of	of	ADP	_	60 hagiology	case
57	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 hagiology	amod
58	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hagiology	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 peasant	punct
60	hagiology	hagiology	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 _	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the Russian peasants	the numerous legends	reverence			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme in reverence=Location
2	appear	present	Petka St. or Friday				in one of the numerous legends; among the other saints	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location
3	mention speech: other	present · passive		St.		day	together property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	canonize	participle						tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	gerund	another canonized day not said here				to the Greek Anastasia St.	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anastasia=Co-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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