Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 46
His name is still preserved by the western and southern Slavonians in many local phrases, especially in imprecations; but, with the introduction of Christianity into Slavonic lands, all this worship of his divinity came to an end.
Who acts: western Slavonians, introduction, Perun, divinity · What happens: preserve, come, name, introduce, worship · To what, where: name, many local phrases, end, Christianity, Slavonic lands
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 (western Slavonians, introduction, Perun, divinity), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 preserved | aux:pass |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 preserved | advmod |
| 5 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Slavonians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Slavonians | det |
| 8 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Slavonians | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 southern | cc |
| 10 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 western | conj |
| 11 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 preserved | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 phrases | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 phrases | amod |
| 14 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 phrases | amod |
| 15 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 preserved | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 imprecations | punct |
| 17 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 19 imprecations | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 imprecations | case |
| 19 | imprecations | imprecation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 phrases | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 came | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 introduction | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 introduction | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 introduction | det |
| 25 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Christianity | case |
| 27 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 introduction | nmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 lands | case |
| 29 | Slavonic | Slavonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lands | compound |
| 30 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 introduction | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 worship | punct |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 worship | det:predet |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 worship | det |
| 34 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lands | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 divinity | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 divinity | nmod:poss |
| 37 | divinity | divinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 worship | nmod |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 preserved | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 end | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 end | det |
| 41 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 preserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | present · passive | the western Slavonians | Perun's name | many local phrases and imprecations | still | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | come | past | the introduction of Christianity into Slavonic lands | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | name | Perun | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | introduce | Christianity | Slavonic lands | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient into=place | |||||
| 5 | worship | Perun's divinity | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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