Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 87

In other parts of Russia, tradition tells that before the crucifixion the swallows carried off the nails provided for the use of the executioners, but the sparrows brought them back.

Who acts: tradition, swallows, nails, sparrows · What happens: tell, carry off, provide, bring back, use · To what, where: other parts, that, nails, executioners · 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 (tradition, swallows, nails, sparrows), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 parts	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parts	amod
3	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tells	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Russia	case
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 parts	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 parts	punct
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	nsubj
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 carried	obj
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 crucifixion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crucifixion	det
12	crucifixion	crucifixion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swallows	det
14	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	nsubj
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tells	ccomp
16	off	off	ADP	_	19 provided	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nails	det
18	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 provided	nsubj
19	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 use	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 use	det
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 provided	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 executioners	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 executioners	det
25	executioners	executioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 use	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 brought	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sparrows	det
29	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 brought	nsubj
30	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	obj
32	back	back	ADV	_	30 brought	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	tradition		other parts of Russia			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry off	past	the swallows	that		before the crucifixion		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	provide	past	the nails				for the use of the executioners	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for use=Recipient
4	bring back	past	the sparrows	nails = nail				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	use			the executioners				nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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