Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 56

To stay away from this ceremony, or not to purchase a piece of the meat, would be considered a great sin; to mow or make hay on that day would be to incur a terrible risk, for Ilya might smite the field with the thunder, or burn up the crop with the lightning.

Who acts: Ilya · What happens: stay away, not purchase, consider, mow, make, be · To what, where: ceremony, piece, great sin, hay, field, crop

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 (Ilya), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 stay	mark
2	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 incur	advcl
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 stay	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 ceremony	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ceremony	det
6	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 purchase	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 purchase	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 purchase	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 purchase	mark
11	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stay	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 purchase	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 meat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meat	det
16	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 considered	punct
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 considered	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 considered	aux:pass
20	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 purchase	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sin	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sin	amod
23	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 considered	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 mow	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 mow	mark
26	mow	mow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stay	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 mow	conj
29	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obl
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 incur	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 incur	cop
35	to	to	PART	_	36 incur	mark
36	incur	incur	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 risk	det
38	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 risk	amod
39	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 incur	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 smite	punct
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 smite	mark
42	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 smite	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 smite	aux
44	smite	smite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 incur	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 field	det
46	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 smite	obj
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 thunder	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 thunder	det
49	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 smite	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 burn	punct
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 burn	cc
52	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 smite	conj
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 burn	compound:prt
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 crop	det
55	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 burn	obj
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 lightning	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 lightning	det
58	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 burn	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 incur	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay away	to-infinitive			this ceremony		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not purchase	to-infinitive		a piece of the meat				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Theme
3	consider	would · passive		a great sin				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»
4	mow	to-infinitive						vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	make	infinitive		hay		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hay=Product
6	is	would					incur property	tree rules
7	smite	might	Ilya	the field			with the thunder	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent field=Patient with thunder=Instrument
8	burn up	infinitive	Ilya not said here	the crop			with the lightning	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crop=Patient with lightning=Instrument

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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