Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 69

Thus the Old Ritualists will not eat the crayfish (_rak_), holding that it was created by the Devil.

Who acts: Old Ritualists, Devil · What happens: not eat, hold, create · To what, where: crayfish

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 (Old Ritualists, Devil), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	7 eat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ritualists	det
3	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Ritualists	amod
4	Ritualists	ritualist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crayfish	det
9	crayfish	crayfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 rak	punct
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 rak	punct
12	rak	rak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crayfish	appos
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 rak	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 rak	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 holding	punct
16	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 eat	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 created	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 created	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 created	aux:pass
20	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 holding	ccomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 Devil	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Devil	det
23	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 created	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not eat	future	the Old Ritualists	the crayfish	thus property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crayfish=Patient
2	hold	gerund	the Old Ritualists not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	create	past · passive	the Devil	crayfish		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

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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