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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 102

Tales of this kind are common in all Christian lands, especially in those in which their folk-lore has preserved some traces of the old faith in the heathen gods who once walked the earth, and in patriarchal fashion dispensed justice among men.

Who acts: Tales, traces, kind · What happens: be, preserve, god, walk, dispense, tell · To what, where: Christian lands, folk lore, those, heathen, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tales, traces, kind), 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

nsubjcasedetnmodcopcasedetamodoblpunctadvmodcaseoblcaseoblnmod:posscompoundpunctnsubj:passauxconjdetobjcasedetamodoblcasedetoblacl:relclnsubjadvmodccompdetobjpunctcccaseamodcompoundamodconjcasenmodpunctrootTalesNOUNofADPthisDETkindNOUNareAUXcommonADJinADPallDETChristianADJlandsNOUN,PUNCTespeciallyADVinADPthosePRONinADPwhichPRONtheirPRONfolkNOUN-PUNCTloreNOUNhasAUXpreservedVERBsomeDETtracesNOUNofADPtheDEToldADJfaithNOUNinADPtheDETheathenNOUNgodsVERBwhoPRONonceADVwalkedVERBtheDETearthNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinADPpatriarchalADJfashionNOUNdispensedVERBjusticeNOUNamongADPmenNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TalestaleNOUNNumber=Plur6 commonnsubj
2ofofADP_4 kindcase
3thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 kinddet
4kindkindNOUNNumber=Sing1 Talesnmod
5arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 commoncop
6commoncommonADJDegree=Posrootroot
7ininADP_10 landscase
8allallDETPronType=Tot10 landsdet
9ChristianChristianADJDegree=Pos10 landsamod
10landslandNOUNNumber=Plur6 commonobl
11,,PUNCT_22 preservedpunct
12especiallyespeciallyADV_22 preservedadvmod
13ininADP_14 thosecase
14thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem22 preservedobl
15ininADP_16 whichcase
16whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 preservedobl
17theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 lorenmod:poss
18folkfolkNOUNNumber=Sing20 lorecompound
19--PUNCT_18 folkpunct
20loreloreNOUNNumber=Sing22 preservednsubj:pass
21hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 preservedaux
22preservedpreserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 commonconj
23somesomeDETPronType=Ind24 tracesdet
24tracestraceNOUNNumber=Plur22 preservedobj
25ofofADP_28 faithcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 faithdet
27oldoldADJDegree=Pos28 faithamod
28faithfaithNOUNNumber=Sing32 godsobl
29ininADP_31 heathencase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 heathendet
31heathenheathenNOUNNumber=Sing32 godsobl
32godsgodVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 tracesacl:relcl
33whowhoPRONPronType=Rel35 walkednsubj
34onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult35 walkedadvmod
35walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 godsccomp
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 earthdet
37earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing35 walkedobj
38,,PUNCT_44 justicepunct
39andandCCONJ_44 justicecc
40ininADP_42 fashioncase
41patriarchalpatriarchalADJDegree=Pos42 fashionamod
42fashionfashionNOUNNumber=Sing44 justicecompound
43dispenseddispenseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass44 justiceamod
44justicejusticeNOUNNumber=Sing6 commonconj
45amongamongADP_46 mencase
46menmanNOUNNumber=Plur44 justicenmod
47..PUNCT_6 commonpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentTales of this kindall Christian landscommon propertytree rules
2preservepresent · perfect · passivetales's folk lorethoseespecially propertytree rules
3godpresentsome traces not said herethe heathenof the old faithtree rules
4walkpastthe earthonce propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Trajectory
5dispenseparticipletree rules
6tellthis kindnom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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