Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 36
Under the names of Georgy, Yury, and Yegory the Brave, he is celebrated as a patron as well of wolves as of flocks and herds, as a Christian Confessor struggling and suffering for the faith amid pagan foes, and as a chivalrous destroyer of snakes and dragons.
Who acts: Christian Confessor · What happens: celebrate, struggle, suffer, name · To what, where: Yegory, names, Georgy
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 (Christian Confessor), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 names | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 names | det |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 celebrated | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Georgy | case |
| 5 | Georgy | Georgy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 names | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yury | punct |
| 7 | Yury | Yury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Georgy | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yegory | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Yegory | cc |
| 10 | Yegory | Yegory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Georgy | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Brave | det |
| 12 | Brave | Brave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Yegory | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 names | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 celebrated | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 16 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 patron | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 patron | det |
| 19 | patron | patron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 celebrated | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 wolves | cc |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 23 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 celebrated | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 flocks | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 celebrated | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 herds | cc |
| 28 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flocks | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Confessor | punct |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 Confessor | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Confessor | det |
| 32 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Confessor | amod |
| 33 | Confessor | confessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 celebrated | obl |
| 34 | struggling | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 Confessor | acl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 suffering | cc |
| 36 | suffering | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 struggling | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 amid | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 amid | det |
| 39 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 amid | compound |
| 40 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suffering | obl |
| 41 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 foes | amod |
| 42 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 amid | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 destroyer | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 destroyer | cc |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 destroyer | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 destroyer | det |
| 47 | chivalrous | chivalrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 destroyer | amod |
| 48 | destroyer | destroyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 celebrated | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 snakes | case |
| 50 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 destroyer | nmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 dragons | cc |
| 52 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 snakes | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | present · passive | Yegory | the names of Georgy and Yury and Yegory | as a patron; as flocks and herds; as a Christian Confessor; as a chivalrous destroyer of snakes and dragons | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as patron=Attribute | |||
| 2 | struggle | gerund | a Christian Confessor not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suffer | gerund | a Christian Confessor not said here | for the faith amid and pagan foes | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | name | Georgy and Yury and Yegory | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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