Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 62

Wherefore the faithful ought not to cross themselves when the thunder peals, lest the evil one should take refuge from the heavenly weapons behind the protecting cross.

Who acts: faithful, evil one · What happens: not cross, take, protect · To what, where: thunder, refuge, heavenly weapons

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 (faithful, evil one), 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	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cross	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 faithful	det
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cross	nsubj
4	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cross	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cross	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cross	mark
7	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 cross	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 peals	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peals	det
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 peals	compound
12	peals	peal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cross	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cross	parataxis
20	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 weapons	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 weapons	det
23	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weapons	amod
24	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obl
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	28 cross	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cross	det
27	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 cross	amod
28	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cross	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not cross	ought	the faithful	thunder		the thunder peals obl; wherefore property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	take	should	the evil one	refuge	the heavenly weapons	behind the protecting cross	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme from weapon=Initial_Location
3	protect	gerund					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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