Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 68
But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally practised by the heathen Slavonians.
Who acts: fuer, heathen, cremation · What happens: not be, practise, bury · To what, where: burial
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (fuer, heathen, cremation), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 certain | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 certain | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 certain | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 certain | advmod |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 practised | mark |
| 7 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 practised | nsubj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 cremation | case |
| 9 | cremation | cremation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burial | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 practised | aux:pass |
| 11 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 12 practised | advmod |
| 12 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 certain | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 heathen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heathen | det |
| 15 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 practised | obl |
| 16 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 heathen | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | fuer | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | practise | past · passive | the heathen | burial by cremation | universally property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bury | cremation | nom burial «event transitive»: by=agent |
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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