Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 67

To St. Nicholas, who has succeeded to the place occupied by an ancient ruler of the waters, a milder character is attributed than to Ilya, the thunder-god's successor.

What happens: succeed, occupy, attribute · To what, where: Nicholas, place, milder character

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: 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	_	3 Nicholas	case
2	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nicholas	nmod:desc
3	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 succeeded	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 succeeded	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 succeeded	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 succeeded	aux
7	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 succeeded	obl
11	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 place	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 ruler	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ruler	det
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ruler	amod
15	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occupied	obl:agent
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 waters	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 waters	det
18	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ruler	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 attributed	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 character	det
21	milder	mild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 character	amod
22	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 attributed	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 attributed	aux:pass
24	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 succeeded	conj
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 Ilya	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Ilya	case
27	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 attributed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 successor	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 god	det
30	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 god	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 thunder	punct
32	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 successor	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 god	case
34	successor	successor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Ilya	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	succeed	present · perfect		Nicholas St.	to the place	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	occupy	participle	the place not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	attribute	present · passive	a milder character		than Ilya	tree rules

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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