Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 13

And even at the present day the common people are in the habit of expressing, by some kind of offering, their thanks to a river on which they have made a prosperous voyage.

Who acts: common people, habit, people · What happens: be, express, make · To what, where: habit, kind, prosperous voyage, thanks

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 (common people, habit, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 habit	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	13 habit	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 habit	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 habit	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 habit	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 habit	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 habit	det
13	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 expressing	mark
15	expressing	express	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 habit	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kind	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 kind	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 kind	det
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 expressing	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 offering	case
21	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thanks	punct
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 thanks	nmod:poss
24	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thanks	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 made	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 thanks	acl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 voyage	det
34	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voyage	amod
35	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 habit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	present	the common people		the habit	day	tree rules
2	express	gerund	the habit not said here	some kind of offering people's thanks to a river			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme
3	make	present · perfect	people	a prosperous voyage	people's thanks to a river		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product

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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