Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 138
The old gods of the Slavonians have passed away and left behind but scanty traces of their existence; but still, in the traditions and proverbial expressions of the peasants in various Slavonic lands, there may be recognized some relics of the older faith.
Who acts: gods · What happens: pass away, leave behind, recognize, exist · To what, where: old gods, traditions, relics
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods), 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 gods | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gods | amod |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Slavonians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Slavonians | det |
| 6 | Slavonians | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 gods | nmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | aux |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 passed | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 passed | conj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 11 left | advmod |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 traces | cc |
| 14 | scanty | scanty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 traces | amod |
| 15 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 left | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 existence | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 existence | nmod:poss |
| 18 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 traces | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 still | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 still | cc |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 passed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 traditions | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 traditions | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 traditions | det |
| 25 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 expressions | cc |
| 27 | proverbial | proverbial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 expressions | amod |
| 28 | expressions | expression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 traditions | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 peasants | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 peasants | det |
| 31 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 expressions | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 lands | case |
| 33 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lands | amod |
| 34 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lands | amod |
| 35 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 peasants | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 recognized | punct |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 recognized | expl |
| 38 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 recognized | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 recognized | aux:pass |
| 40 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 passed | parataxis |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 relics | det |
| 42 | relics | relic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 recognized | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 faith | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 faith | det |
| 45 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 faith | amod |
| 46 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 relics | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | present · perfect · passive | the old gods of the Slavonians | the traditions and proverbial expressions of the peasants in various Slavonic lands | still | away property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | leave behind | participle | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | recognize | may · passive | some relics of the older faith | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: relic=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | exist | gods = god | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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