Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 59
Diseases being considered to be evil spirits, invalids used to pray to the thunder-god for relief.
Who acts: invalids · What happens: consider, be, use, pray · To what, where: Diseases, evil spirits
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 (invalids), 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 | Diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 considered | aux:pass |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 spirits | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spirits | cop |
| 6 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirits | amod |
| 7 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 considered | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 9 | invalids | invalid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 used | nsubj |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pray | mark |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 god | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def 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 | 12 pray | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 relief | case |
| 19 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | gerund · passive | Diseases | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | evil spirits | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | past | invalids | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pray | to-infinitive | invalids not said here | to the thunder god for relief | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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