Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 43

But, in order to render it intelligible, a few words about "Ilya the Prophet," as Elijah is styled in Russia, may as well be prefixed.

What happens: render, style, prefix · To what, where: order, Elijah, Russia, few words

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 render	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 render	punct
3	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 render	mark
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 in	fixed
5	to	to	PART	_	6 render	mark
6	render	render	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 render	obj
8	intelligible	intelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 render	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 words	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 words	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 prefixed	obl
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 Ilya	case
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Ilya	punct
15	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 words	nmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prophet	det
17	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Ilya	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Prophet	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Prophet	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 styled	mark
21	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 styled	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 styled	aux:pass
23	styled	style	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 prefixed	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 Russia	case
25	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 styled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 styled	punct
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 prefixed	aux
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	31 prefixed	cc
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 prefixed	aux:pass
31	prefixed	prefix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 render	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 render	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	render	to-infinitive	order		intelligible property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	style	present · passive	Elijah	Russia		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result
3	prefix	may · passive	a few words about Ilya			tree rules

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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