Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 41

It is on account of the good service thus rendered to our race that we ought to cherish and feed the dog.

Who acts: wrath, account, we, our · What happens: be, render, cherish, feed, race · To what, where: account, race, dog

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 (wrath, account, we, our), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 account	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 account	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 account	case
4	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 service	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 service	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 service	amod
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rendered	obl
9	thus	thus	ADV	_	10 rendered	advmod
10	rendered	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 account	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 race	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 race	nmod:poss
13	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rendered	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 cherish	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 cherish	nsubj
16	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 cherish	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cherish	mark
18	cherish	cherish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 race	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 feed	cc
20	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cherish	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dog	det
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feed	iobj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 account	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	wrath			account		tree rules
2	render	past	account not said here		our race		of the good service; thus property	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to race=Recipient
3	cherish	ought	we	our race				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	feed	infinitive	we not said here		the dog			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
5	race		our					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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