Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 29

It is not always to the Prophet Ilya that the power once attributed to Perun is now ascribed.

Who acts: life, power · What happens: not be, attribute, ascribe · To what, where: Perun, power

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, power), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Ilya	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Ilya	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 Ilya	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 Ilya	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 Ilya	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ilya	det
7	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ilya	compound
8	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 ascribed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 power	det
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ascribed	nsubj:pass
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 attributed	advmod
13	attributed	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 power	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Perun	case
15	Perun	Perun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 attributed	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ascribed	aux:pass
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 ascribed	advmod
18	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Ilya	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Ilya	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	life				to the Prophet Ilya; always property	tree rules
2	attribute	past	the power not said here		Perun		once property	tree rules
3	ascribe	present · passive		the power		now		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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