Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 79

When God created the earth, and determined to supply it with seas, lakes and rivers, he ordered the birds to convey the waters to their appointed places.

Who acts: God · What happens: create, supply, order, convey, appoint · To what, where: earth, birds, waters, appointed places

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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 created	advmod
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 created	nsubj
3	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ordered	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 earth	det
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 created	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 determined	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 determined	cc
8	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 created	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 supply	mark
10	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 determined	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 supply	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 seas	case
13	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 supply	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lakes	punct
15	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seas	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rivers	cc
17	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seas	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 created	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ordered	nsubj
20	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 birds	det
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ordered	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 convey	mark
24	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ordered	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 waters	det
26	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 convey	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 places	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 places	nmod:poss
29	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 places	amod
30	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 convey	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	create	past	God	the earth			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Result
2	supply	to-infinitive	God not said here	earth		with seas and lakes and rivers	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with sea=Theme
3	order	past	God		the birds		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic
4	convey not said to happen	to-infinitive	God not said here	the waters	birds's appointed places		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Topic to place=Recipient
5	appoint	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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