Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 77
The inhabitants of the pagan city of Troyan, it states, "did not believe in Christ, but in gold and silver."
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: state, not believe · To what, where: gold, Christ · 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 (inhabitants), 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 | 2 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 states | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 5 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 city | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 inhabitants | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Troyan | case |
| 8 | Troyan | Troyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 inhabitants | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 states | nsubj |
| 11 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 believe | advmod |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 states | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Christ | case |
| 18 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 believe | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gold | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 gold | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 states | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 silver | cc |
| 24 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gold | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 gold | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present | the inhabitants of the pagan city of Troyan | gold and silver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not believe in a quote | past · do-support | Christ | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/77/