Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 95
Wednesday, the day consecrated to Odin, the eve of the day sacred to the Thundergod,[254] may also have been held holy by the heathen Slavonians, but to some commentators it appears more likely that the traditions now attached to it in Russia became transferred to it from Friday in Christian times--Wednesday and Friday having been associated by the Church as days sacred to the memory of Our Lord's passion and death.
Who acts: Wednesday, heathen Slavonians, it, Church · What happens: consecrate, sacre, hold, appear, attach, transfer · To what, where: day, traditions, Thundergod, Russia, Wednesday
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 (Wednesday, heathen Slavonians, it, Church), 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 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sacred | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wednesday | appos |
| 5 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 day | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Odin | case |
| 7 | Odin | Odin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 consecrated | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eve | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eve | det |
| 10 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Odin | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eve | nmod |
| 14 | sacred | sacre | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Thundergod | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Thundergod | det |
| 17 | Thundergod | Thundergod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 held | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 254 | punct |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 254 | punct |
| 20 | 254 | 254 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Thundergod | appos |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 254 | punct |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 held | aux |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 held | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 held | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 held | aux:pass |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sacred | ccomp |
| 27 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 held | xcomp |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Slavonians | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Slavonians | det |
| 30 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Slavonians | compound |
| 31 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 held | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 appears | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 appears | cc |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 commentators | case |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 commentators | det |
| 36 | commentators | commentator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 appears | obl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 appears | nsubj |
| 38 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 transferred | advcl |
| 39 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 likely | advmod |
| 40 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 appears | xcomp |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 attached | mark |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 traditions | det |
| 43 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 attached | advmod |
| 45 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 likely | advcl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 attached | obl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 Russia | case |
| 49 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 attached | obl |
| 50 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 transferred | aux:pass |
| 51 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sacred | conj |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 it | case |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 transferred | obl |
| 54 | from | from | ADP | _ | 55 Friday | case |
| 55 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 associated | obl |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 times | case |
| 57 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 times | amod |
| 58 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 Friday | nmod |
| 59 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 60 Wednesday | punct |
| 60 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 Friday | cc |
| 62 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Wednesday | conj |
| 63 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 65 associated | aux |
| 64 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 65 associated | aux:pass |
| 65 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 transferred | parataxis |
| 66 | by | by | ADP | _ | 68 Church | case |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 Church | det |
| 68 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 associated | obl |
| 69 | as | as | ADP | _ | 70 days | case |
| 70 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 65 associated | obl |
| 71 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 days | amod |
| 72 | to | to | ADP | _ | 74 memory | case |
| 73 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 memory | det |
| 74 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 sacred | obl |
| 75 | of | of | ADP | _ | 79 passion | case |
| 76 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 77 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 77 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 79 passion | nmod:poss |
| 78 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 77 Lord | case |
| 79 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 memory | nmod |
| 80 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 81 death | cc |
| 81 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 passion | conj |
| 82 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consecrate | participle | the day not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sacre | past | Wednesday | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | may · perfect · passive | the heathen Slavonians | to the Thundergod; holy property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | appear | present | it | to some commentators; likely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attach | participle · passive | the traditions | Thundergod | Russia | now | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient | ||
| 6 | transfer | past · passive | Wednesday not said here | Thundergod | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to it=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | associate | gerund · perfect · passive | the Church | Wednesday and Friday | day; friday | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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