Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 39
On St. George's Day in spring, April 23, the fields are sanctified by a church service, at the end of which they are sprinkled with holy water.
Who acts: church service · What happens: sanctify, sprinkle · To what, where: fields, George
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 (church service), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 George | case |
| 2 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | nmod:desc |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sanctified | obl |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 George | case |
| 5 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | flat |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Day | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 23 | punct |
| 9 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 George | list |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 George | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sanctified | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sanctified | aux:pass |
| 15 | sanctified | sanctify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 service | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 service | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 service | compound |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sanctified | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 end | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sanctified | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 sprinkled | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 28 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 end | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 30 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 water | amod |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sprinkled | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sanctified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sanctify | present · passive | a church service | the fields | George St. | at the end | tree rules | ||
| 2 | sprinkle | present · passive | fields = field | of the end | with holy water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme |
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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