Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 21
Just as rivers might be conciliated by honor and sacrifice, so they could be irritated by disrespect.
Who acts: honor, disrespect · What happens: conciliate, irritate · To what, where: rivers, sacrifices
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 (honor, disrespect), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 conciliated | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 conciliated | mark |
| 3 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 conciliated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 conciliated | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 conciliated | aux:pass |
| 6 | conciliated | conciliate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 honor | case |
| 8 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conciliated | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sacrifice | cc |
| 10 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 honor | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 irritated | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 irritated | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 irritated | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 irritated | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 irritated | aux:pass |
| 16 | irritated | irritate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 conciliated | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 disrespect | case |
| 18 | disrespect | disrespect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 irritated | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conciliated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conciliate | might · passive | honor and sacrifice | rivers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | irritate | could · passive | disrespect | sacrifices = sacrifice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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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