Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 64

But the day was undoubtedly consecrated by the old Slavonians to some goddess akin to Venus or Freyja, and her worship in ancient times accounts for the superstitions now connected with the name of Friday.

Who acts: old Slavonians, Venus, Freyja · What happens: consecrate, connect, worship, name · To what, where: worship, ancient times accounts, Friday

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 (old Slavonians, Venus, Freyja), 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	_	6 consecrated	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consecrated	obl:unmarked
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consecrated	aux:pass
5	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	6 consecrated	advmod
6	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 Slavonians	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Slavonians	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Slavonians	amod
10	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 consecrated	obl:agent
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 goddess	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 goddess	det
13	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consecrated	obl
14	akin	akin	ADV	_	16 Venus	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Venus	case
16	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 consecrated	obl:agent
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 Freyja	cc
18	Freyja	Freyja	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Venus	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 connected	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 connected	cc
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 worship	nmod:poss
22	worship	worship	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 connected	nsubj:pass
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 accounts	case
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 accounts	amod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 accounts	compound
26	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 worship	nmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 superstitions	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 superstitions	det
29	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 accounts	nmod
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 connected	advmod
31	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Venus	acl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 name	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 name	det
34	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 connected	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Friday	case
36	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 name	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 consecrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consecrate	past · passive	the old Slavonians			day	to some goddess; undoubtedly property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	connect	participle · passive	Venus or Freyja not said here	Freyja's worship in ancient times accounts for the superstitions		now	with the name of Friday	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with name=Co-Patient
3	worship		Freyja		ancient times accounts for the superstitions			nom worship «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place
4	name			Friday				nom name «communication 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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