Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 4

As besides the songs or _pyesni_ there are current among the people a number of _stikhi_ or poems on sacred subjects, so together with the _skazki_ there have been retained in the popular memory a multitude of _legendui_, or legends relating to persons or incidents mentioned in the Bible or in ecclesiastical history.

Who acts: legends · What happens: beside, be, retain, relate, mention · To what, where: songs, popular memory, persons, Bible

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 (legends), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	2 besides	mark
2	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 are	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 songs	det
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 besides	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 _	cc
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 songs	punct
7	pyesni	pyesni	X	Foreign=Yes	4 songs	dep
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 besides	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 are	xcomp
12	among	among	ADP	_	14 people	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 current	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 number	det
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 people	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stikhi	case
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 of	punct
19	stikhi	stikhi	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 number	nmod
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 current	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 poems	cc
22	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 _	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 subjects	case
24	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 subjects	amod
25	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 poems	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 together	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 together	advmod
28	together	together	ADV	_	10 are	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 skazki	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 skazki	det
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 skazki	punct
32	skazki	skazki	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 together	obl
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 retained	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 retained	expl
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 retained	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 retained	aux:pass
37	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 are	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 memory	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 memory	det
40	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 memory	amod
41	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 retained	obl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 multitude	det
43	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 memory	appos
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 legendui	case
45	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 of	punct
46	legendui	legendui	X	Foreign=Yes	43 multitude	nmod
47	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 legends	punct
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 legends	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 legends	cc
50	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 multitude	conj
51	relating	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 legends	acl
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 persons	case
53	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 relating	obl
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 incidents	cc
55	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 persons	conj
56	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 persons	acl
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 Bible	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Bible	det
59	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 mentioned	obl
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 history	cc
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 history	case
62	ecclesiastical	ecclesiastical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 history	amod
63	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 Bible	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beside	present		the songs			tree rules
2	be	present			there	current property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	retain	present · perfect · passive			the popular memory; there		tree rules
4	relate	gerund	legends not said here			to persons or incidents	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to person=Co-Theme
5	mention speech: other	participle		persons or incidents not said here	the Bible or ecclesiastical history		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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