Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 62

Thus it is said that when God was allotting their shares to the rivers, the Desna did not come in time, and so failed to obtain precedence over the Dnieper.

Who acts: God, Desna, sorts · What happens: say, allot, not come, fail, not obtain, share · To what, where: reference, shares, rivers, precedence, Dnieper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, Desna, sorts), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 allotting	mark
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 allotting	advmod
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 allotting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 allotting	aux
9	allotting	allot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shares	nmod:poss
11	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 allotting	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 rivers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rivers	det
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 allotting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Desna	det
17	Desna	Desna	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 time	case
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 failed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 failed	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 failed	advmod
26	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 obtain	mark
28	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 failed	xcomp
29	precedence	precedence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 obtain	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 Dnieper	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Dnieper	det
32	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 obtain	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		reference			thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	allot	past · progressive	God	sorts's shares			to the rivers goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent share=Theme to river=Goal
3	not come	past · do-support	the Desna			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fail	past	the Desna not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not obtain	to-infinitive	the Desna not said here	precedence	the Dnieper			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset precedence=Theme
6	share		sorts = sort					nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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