Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 44
It is well known that in the days of heathenism the Slavonians worshipped a thunder-god, Perun,[441] who occupied in their mythological system the place which in the Teutonic was assigned to a Donar or a Thor.
Who acts: Slavonians · What happens: know, worshipp, occupy, assign · To what, where: order, thunder god, mythological system, place, Teutonic · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Slavonians), 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 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 worshipped | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Slavonians | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heathenism | case |
| 10 | heathenism | heathenism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 days | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Slavonians | det |
| 12 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 worshipped | nsubj |
| 13 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 15 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 thunder | punct |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worshipped | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Perun | punct |
| 19 | Perun | Perun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 god | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 441 | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 441 | punct |
| 22 | 441 | 441 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 worshipped | obl |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 441 | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 occupied | nsubj |
| 25 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 441 | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 system | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 system | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 system | amod |
| 29 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 occupied | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 system | appos |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 assigned | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Teutonic | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Teutonic | det |
| 35 | Teutonic | Teutonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 assigned | obl |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 assigned | aux:pass |
| 37 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 place | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Donar | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 Donar | det |
| 40 | Donar | donar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 assigned | obl |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 Thor | cc |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 Thor | det |
| 43 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Donar | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | order | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | worshipp | past | the Slavonians | a thunder god | 441 obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | occupy | past | Slavonians's mythological system | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | assign | past · passive | the place | the Teutonic | to a Donar or a Thor goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: which=Theme to donar=Goal |
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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