Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 30
The pagan wielder of the thunderbolt is represented in modern traditions by more than one Christian saint.
Who acts: one Christian saint · What happens: represent · To what, where: pagan wielder
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 (one Christian saint), 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 wielder | det |
| 2 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wielder | amod |
| 3 | wielder | wielder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 thunderbolt | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thunderbolt | det |
| 6 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wielder | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 represented | aux:pass |
| 8 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 traditions | case |
| 10 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 traditions | amod |
| 11 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 represented | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 saint | case |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 15 one | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 saint | nummod |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saint | amod |
| 17 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 represented | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | one Christian saint | the pagan wielder of the thunderbolt | in modern traditions | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme in tradition=Attribute |
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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