Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 66
In Christian times the personality of the goddess (by whatever name she may have been known) to whom Friday was consecrated became merged in that of St. Prascovia, and she is now frequently addressed by the compound name of "Mother Pyatnitsa-Prascovia."
Who acts: personality, compound name · What happens: know, consecrate, become, merge, address, name · To what, where: personality, Friday, that, Mother
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 (personality, compound name), 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 | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 became | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 personality | det |
| 5 | personality | personality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 goddess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goddess | det |
| 8 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 personality | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 whatever | case |
| 11 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 name | obl |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goddess | appos |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 known | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 known | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 known | aux:pass |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 name | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 consecrated | obl |
| 21 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 consecrated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 consecrated | aux:pass |
| 23 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 goddess | acl:relcl |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | merged | merge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 became | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 merged | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Prascovia | case |
| 29 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Prascovia | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Prascovia | Prascovia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 that | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 addressed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 addressed | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 addressed | aux:pass |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 addressed | advmod |
| 36 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 37 addressed | advmod |
| 37 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 became | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 name | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 name | det |
| 40 | compound | compound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 name | amod |
| 41 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 addressed | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Mother | case |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 Mother | punct |
| 44 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 name | nmod |
| 45 | Pyatnitsa | Pyatnitsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Mother | appos |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 Prascovia | punct |
| 47 | Prascovia | Prascovia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Pyatnitsa | flat |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | may · perfect · passive | personality | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | consecrate | past · passive | Friday | to the goddess | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the personality of the goddess | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | merge | participle | the personality of the goddess not said here | that | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | address | present · passive | the compound name of Mother | personality | now | frequently property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||
| 6 | name | Mother | 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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