Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 12

In old times sacrifices were regularly paid to lakes and streams in Russia, just as they were in Germany[275] and in other lands.

Who acts: sacrifices · What happens: pay, be · To what, where: sacrifices, Russia

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sacrifices), 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	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	obl
4	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	aux:pass
6	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	7 paid	advmod
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 lakes	case
9	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 streams	cc
11	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lakes	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Russia	case
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Germany	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	20 Germany	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 Germany	case
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 Germany	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Germany	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Germany	case
20	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 paid	parataxis
21	[	[	PUNCT	_	22 275	punct
22	275	275	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 Germany	appos
23	]	]	PUNCT	_	22 275	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lands	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 lands	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lands	amod
27	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Germany	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive		sacrifices		Russia	time	to lakes and streams; regularly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	is	past	sacrifices = sacrifice					as Germany and other lands	tree rules

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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