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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 32

There was a village (says one of the legends of the Chernigof Government) in which lived more than a thousand witches, and they used to steal the holy stars, until at last "there was not one left to light our sinful world."

Who acts: village, witches · What happens: be, say, live, use, steal, leave · To what, where: one, thousand witches, holy stars, sinful world, light · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (village, witches), 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

expldetnsubjpunctacl:relclobjcasedetnmodcasedetcompoundnmodpunctcasensubjacl:relcladvmodfixeddetnummodobjpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompdetamodobjpunctcasecaseoblpunctexplacl:relcladvmodnsubjaclcaseoblnmod:possamodoblpunctpunctrootTherePRONwasVERBaDETvillageNOUN(PUNCTsaysVERBoneNUMofADPtheDETlegendsNOUNofADPtheDETChernigofPROPNGovernmentPROPN)PUNCTinADPwhichPRONlivedVERBmoreADJthanADPaDETthousandNUMwitchesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONusedVERBtoPARTstealVERBtheDETholyADJstarsNOUN,PUNCTuntilADPatADPlastADJ"PUNCTtherePRONwasAUXnotPARToneNUMleftVERBtoADPlightNOUNourPRONsinfulADJworldNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 wasexpl
2wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 villagedet
4villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing2 wasnsubj
5((PUNCT_6 sayspunct
6sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 villageacl:relcl
7oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card6 saysobj
8ofofADP_10 legendscase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 legendsdet
10legendslegendNOUNNumber=Plur7 onenmod
11ofofADP_14 Governmentcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Governmentdet
13ChernigofChernigofPROPNNumber=Sing14 Governmentcompound
14GovernmentGovernmentPROPNNumber=Sing10 legendsnmod
15))PUNCT_6 sayspunct
16ininADP_17 whichcase
17whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel18 livednsubj
18livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 villageacl:relcl
19moremoreADJDegree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV22 thousandadvmod
20thanthanADP_19 morefixed
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 thousanddet
22thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 witchesnummod
23witcheswitchNOUNNumber=Plur18 livedobj
24,,PUNCT_27 usedpunct
25andandCCONJ_27 usedcc
26theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 usednsubj
27useduseVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wasconj
28totoPART_29 stealmark
29stealstealVERBVerbForm=Inf27 usedxcomp
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 starsdet
31holyholyADJDegree=Pos32 starsamod
32starsstarNOUNNumber=Plur29 stealobj
33,,PUNCT_36 lastpunct
34untiluntilADP_36 lastcase
35atatADP_36 lastcase
36lastlastADJDegree=Pos27 usedobl
37""PUNCT_39 waspunct
38theretherePRONPronType=Dem39 wasexpl
39wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 lastacl:relcl
40notnotPARTPolarity=Neg41 oneadvmod
41oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card39 wasnsubj
42leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass41 oneacl
43totoADP_44 lightcase
44lightlightNOUNNumber=Sing42 leftobl
45ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs47 worldnmod:poss
46sinfulsinfulADJDegree=Pos47 worldamod
47worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing42 leftobl
48..PUNCT_2 waspunct
49""PUNCT_2 waspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepasta villagetherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2say speech: assertpresenta village not said hereone of the legends of the Chernigof Governmentvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3livepasta villagethousand witchesvn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme witch=Location
4usepastwitches = witchuntil lastvn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5stealto-infinitivewitches = witch not said herethe holy starsvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location star=Theme
6leave in a quoteparticipleour sinful worldlightvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to light=Initial_Location

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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