Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 100

A great number of the Russian legends refer to the visits which Christ and his Apostles are supposed to pay to men's houses at various times, but especially during the period between Easter Sunday and Ascension Day.

Who acts: great number · What happens: refer, suppose, pay · To what, where: Christ

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great number), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 number	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 number	amod
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refer	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 legends	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 legends	det
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 legends	amod
7	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
8	refer	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 visits	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 visits	det
11	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 refer	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 supposed	obj
13	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 supposed	nsubj:pass
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Apostles	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Apostles	nmod:poss
16	Apostles	apostle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Christ	conj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 supposed	aux:pass
18	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 visits	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pay	mark
20	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 supposed	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 houses	case
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 houses	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 men	case
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pay	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 times	case
26	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 times	amod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pay	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 period	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 period	cc
30	especially	especially	ADV	_	33 period	advmod
31	during	during	ADP	_	33 period	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 period	det
33	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refer	obl
34	between	between	ADP	_	36 Sunday	case
35	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Sunday	compound
36	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 period	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Day	cc
38	Ascension	Ascension	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Day	compound
39	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Sunday	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 refer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refer	present	a great number of the Russian legends		during the period between Easter Sunday and Ascension Day	to the visits	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to visit=Co-Theme
2	suppose	present · passive		Christ and Christ's Apostles			tree rules
3	pay	to-infinitive			time	to men's houses	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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