Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 58

To these a cross-bearing procession was made when a change in the weather was desired: to the former in times of drought, to the latter when injury was being done to the crops by rain.

Who acts: rain · What happens: make, desire, do · To what, where: change, injury

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 (rain), 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	ADP	_	5 procession	case
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 procession	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 procession	det
4	cross-bearing	cross-bearing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 procession	amod
5	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 desired	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 change	det
10	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 desired	nsubj:pass
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 weather	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weather	det
13	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 desired	aux:pass
15	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 made	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 former	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 former	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 former	det
19	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 times	case
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 former	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 drought	case
23	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 times	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 latter	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 latter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 latter	det
27	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 former	conj
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 done	advmod
29	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 done	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux:pass
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 done	aux:pass
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 latter	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 crops	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 crops	det
35	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 done	obl
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 rain	case
37	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 done	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive			to a cross-bearing procession	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
2	desire	past · passive		a change in the weather		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
3	do	past · passive	rain	injury	to the crops	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

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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