Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 47

Then took place, as had occurred before in other countries, the merging of numerous portions of the old faith in the new, the transferring of many of the attributes of the old gods to the sacred personages of the new religion.

Who acts: numerous portions · What happens: take, occur, merge · To what, where: place, other countries

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 (numerous portions), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 took	advmod
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 occurred	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 occurred	mark
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 occurred	aux
7	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 took	conj
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 countries	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 countries	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 countries	amod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 occurred	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 merging	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 merging	det
14	merging	merging	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 portions	case
16	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 portions	amod
17	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 merging	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 faith	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 faith	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 faith	amod
21	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 portions	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 transferring	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 transferring	det
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 transferring	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 transferring	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 transferring	det
27	transferring	transferring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 faith	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 attributes	case
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 attributes	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 attributes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 attributes	det
32	attributes	attribute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 transferring	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 gods	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gods	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gods	amod
36	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 attributes	nmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 personages	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 personages	det
39	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 personages	amod
40	personages	personage	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 gods	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 religion	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 religion	det
43	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 religion	amod
44	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 personages	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		place		then	the merging of numerous portions of the old faith in the new transferring of the many attributes of the old gods to the sacred personages obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	occur	past · perfect			other countries			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before country=Location
3	merge		numerous portions of the old faith in the new transferring of the many attributes of the old gods to the sacred personages of the new religion					nom merging «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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