Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 14

It is said that Stenka Razin, the insurgent chief of the Don Cossacks in the seventeenth century, once offered a human sacrifice to the Volga.

Who acts: Stenka · What happens: say, offer · To what, where: voyage, human sacrifice, Volga · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Stenka), 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	3 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 offered	mark
5	Stenka	Stenka	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 offered	nsubj
6	Razin	Razin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Stenka	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chief	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chief	det
9	insurgent	insurgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chief	amod
10	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Stenka	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Cossacks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cossacks	det
13	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Cossacks	compound
14	Cossacks	Cossack	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 chief	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 century	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 century	det
17	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 century	compound
18	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Cossacks	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Stenka	punct
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 offered	advmod
21	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sacrifice	det
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sacrifice	amod
24	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 offered	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Volga	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Volga	det
27	Volga	Volga	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 offered	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		voyage					tree rules
2	offer	past	Stenka	a human sacrifice	the Volga			once property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme to volga=Goal

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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