Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 143

One of the Russian equivalents for our hideous "father-in-law" is "god-given father" (_bogodanny otets_), and for "mother-in-law," _bogodanny mat'_ or "God-given mother."

Who acts: One, God · What happens: give, be, mother · To what, where: given father

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, God), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 father	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 equivalents	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 equivalents	det
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 equivalents	amod
5	equivalents	equivalent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hideous	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hideous	nmod:poss
8	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 equivalents	amod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hideous	punct
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 law	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hideous	parataxis
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 father	cop
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
18	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 god	punct
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 father	amod
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 otets	punct
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 otets	punct
25	bogodanny	bogodanny	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 otets	compound
26	otets	otet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 father	appos
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 otets	punct
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 otets	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 law	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 law	cc
31	for	for	ADP	_	37 law	case
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 law	punct
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 law	nsubj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 law	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 law	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 in	punct
37	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 father	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 _	punct
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 _	punct
41	bogodanny	bogodanny	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mat	compound
42	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 _	compound
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 _	punct
44	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 father	appos
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 mother	cc
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 mother	punct
47	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 mother	nsubj
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 God	punct
49	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 mother	amod
50	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 _	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 _	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 _	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present	One of the Russian equivalents	given father and law	tree rules
3	give in a quote	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	mother in a quote		God		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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