Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 32

The Schismatics called _Dukhobortsui_, or Spirit-Wrestlers, for instance, hold that man was composed of earthly materials, but that God breathed into his body the breath of life. "

Who acts: Schismatics, God · What happens: call, hold, compose, breathe · To what, where: Dukhobortsui, man, breath, body · 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 (Schismatics, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Schismatics	det
2	Schismatics	Schismatic	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Dukhobortsui	punct
5	Dukhobortsui	Dukhobortsui	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Dukhobortsui	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Wrestlers	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 Wrestlers	cc
9	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wrestlers	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Spirit	punct
11	Wrestlers	wrestler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Dukhobortsui	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 instance	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 instance	case
14	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Dukhobortsui	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct
16	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 Dukhobortsui	parataxis
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 composed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 composed	aux:pass
20	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hold	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 materials	case
22	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 materials	amod
23	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 composed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 breathed	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 breathed	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 breathed	mark
27	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 breathed	nsubj
28	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 body	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breathed	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 breath	det
33	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breathed	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 life	case
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 breath	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	the Schismatics		Dukhobortsui or Spirit Wrestlers			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dukhobortsui=Recipient
2	hold	infinitive						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	compose	past · passive		that man			of earthly materials	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
4	breathe	past	God	the breath of life		man's body		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

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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