Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 72

This belief is not peculiar to the Slavonians but it is one of the characteristic features of their spiritual creed.

Who acts: belief · What happens: not be, be, feature · To what, where: peculiar, one, spiritual creed

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (belief), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 belief	det
2	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peculiar	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 peculiar	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 peculiar	advmod
5	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Slavonians	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Slavonians	det
8	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 peculiar	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 peculiar	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 features	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 features	det
15	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 features	amod
16	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 creed	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 creed	nmod:poss
19	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creed	amod
20	creed	creed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 features	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 peculiar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	this belief	peculiar	to the Slavonians	tree rules
2	is a	present	belief	one	of the characteristic features of features's spiritual creed	tree rules
3	feature			features's spiritual creed		nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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