Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 68

It is a sin, says a time-honored tradition, for a woman to sew, or spin, or weave, or buck linen on a Friday, and similarly for a man to plait bast shoes, twine cord, and the like.

Who acts: least · What happens: be, say, honor, sew, weave, buck · To what, where: sin, honored tradition, linen, bast shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (least), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sin	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sin	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sin	det
4	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sin	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tradition	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 honored	obl:unmarked
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
10	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tradition	amod
11	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 woman	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 woman	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tradition	appos
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sew	mark
17	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 woman	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spin	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 spin	cc
20	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tradition	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weave	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 weave	cc
23	weave	weave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 buck	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 buck	cc
26	buck	buck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 weave	conj
27	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 buck	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 Friday	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Friday	det
30	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 buck	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 plait	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 plait	cc
33	similarly	similarly	ADV	_	38 plait	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 man	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 similarly	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 plait	mark
38	plait	plait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 says	parataxis
39	bast	bast	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shoes	compound
40	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 plait	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 cord	punct
42	twine	twine	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cord	compound
43	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shoes	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 like	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 like	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 like	det
47	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 plait	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	least	a sin			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present		a honored tradition or spin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tradition=Topic
3	honor	participle			time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sew	to-infinitive					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	weave	infinitive					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	buck	infinitive		linen	friday		tree rules
7	plait	to-infinitive		bast shoes and twine cord		similarly property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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