Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 73

Nicholas's day he always kept holy, but Elijah's not a bit; he would even work upon it.

Who acts: Nicholas, Elijah · What happens: keep, not be, work · To what, where: bit

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 (Nicholas, Elijah), 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	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Nicholas	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 kept	advmod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bit	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 bit	cc
10	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bit	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bit	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bit	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 work	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 work	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 work	aux
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 work	advmod
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	advcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 work	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Nicholas		day	always, holy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	Elijah	a bit			tree rules
3	work	would	Nicholas			upon bit	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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