Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 64

The white clouds of summer are named by them his heavenly sheep, and they say that he compels the spirits of dead Gypsies to form pellets of snow--by men styled hail--with which he scourges in summer the fields of sinners.

Who acts: nostrils, clouds, Ilya · What happens: name, say, compel, form, style, scourge · To what, where: white clouds, spirits, pellets, summer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (nostrils, clouds, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clouds	amod
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 named	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clouds	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 named	aux:pass
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 named	obl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sheep	nmod:poss
11	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sheep	amod
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 named	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 named	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 compels	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 compels	nsubj
19	compels	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spirits	det
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 compels	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Gypsies	case
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Gypsies	amod
24	Gypsies	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spirits	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 form	mark
26	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 compels	advcl
27	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 form	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 snow	case
29	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pellets	nmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 men	punct
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 men	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 form	obj
33	styled	style	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 hail	amod
34	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 men	appos
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 scourges	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 scourges	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 scourges	nsubj
39	scourges	scourge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hail	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 summer	case
41	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 scourges	obj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fields	det
43	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 summer	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 sinners	case
45	sinners	sinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fields	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive	nostrils = nostril	the white clouds of summer			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme sheep=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	present	clouds = cloud				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	compel	present	Ilya	the spirits of dead Gypsies			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
4	form	to-infinitive	Ilya not said here	pellets of snow			tree rules
5	style	participle					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	scourge	present	Ilya		summer	with styled hail	tree rules
7	cloud			summer			nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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