Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 60

And so, at the present day, a _zagovor_ or spell against the Siberian cattle-plague entreats the "Holy Prophet of God Ilya," to send "thirty angels in golden array, with bows and with arrows" to destroy it.

Who acts: zagovor _ · What happens: entreat, send, destroy · To what, where: Holy Prophet, thirty angels, golden array, Prophet

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 (zagovor _), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 entreats	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	21 entreats	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entreats	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 _	det
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 _	punct
11	zagovor	zagovor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 _	compound
12	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entreats	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 spell	cc
14	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 _	conj
15	against	against	ADP	_	20 plague	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plague	det
17	Siberian	siberian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plague	amod
18	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plague	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 cattle	punct
20	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 _	nmod
21	entreats	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Prophet	det
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Prophet	punct
24	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	25 Prophet	compound
25	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 entreats	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 God	case
27	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Prophet	nmod
28	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 God	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 send	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 send	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 send	mark
32	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 entreats	conj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 angels	punct
34	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 angels	nummod
35	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 send	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 array	case
37	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 array	amod
38	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 angels	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bows	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 bows	case
41	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 angels	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 arrows	cc
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 arrows	case
44	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 angels	conj
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 angels	punct
46	to	to	PART	_	47 destroy	mark
47	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 send	advcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 destroy	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 entreats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	entreat	present	a zagovor _ against the Siberian cattle plague or spell		the Holy Prophet of God		day	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Recipient
2	send	to-infinitive	a zagovor _ against the Siberian cattle plague or spell not said here	thirty angels and bows and arrows		golden array		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in array=Destination
3	destroy	to-infinitive	a zagovor _ against the Siberian cattle plague or spell not said here	Prophet				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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