Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 140

Thus, among the peasants of White Russia some vague memory still exists of a white or bright being, now called Byelun,[458] who leads belated travellers out of forests, and bestows gold on men who do him good service. "

Who acts: vague memory, Byelun, men · What happens: exist, call, lead, belat, bestow, do · To what, where: belated travellers, forests, gold, memory · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (vague memory, Byelun, men), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	13 exists	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 peasants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peasants	det
5	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thus	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Russia	case
7	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Russia	amod
8	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 peasants	nmod
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 memory	det
10	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 memory	amod
11	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exists	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 exists	advmod
13	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 called	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 called	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 called	parataxis
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 bright	cc
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 white	conj
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 called	aux:pass
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 called	advmod
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 exists	advcl
23	Byelun	Byelun	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 458	punct
25	[	[	PUNCT	_	26 458	punct
26	458	458	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 Byelun	appos
27	]	]	PUNCT	_	26 458	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 leads	nsubj
29	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Byelun	advcl:relcl
30	belated	belat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 travellers	amod
31	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 leads	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	34 forests	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 forests	case
34	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 leads	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bestows	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bestows	cc
37	bestows	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 leads	conj
38	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bestows	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 men	case
40	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bestows	obl
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 do	nsubj
42	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 men	acl:relcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 do	obj
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 service	amod
45	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 do	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 exists	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 exists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	some vague memory			still	thus property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call speech: assert	gerund · passive	some vague memory not said here			now		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
3	lead	present	Byelun	belated travellers	forests			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme out forest=Destination
4	belat	participle						tree rules
5	bestow	present	Byelun not said here	gold			on men	tree rules
6	do	present	men	memory				tree rules

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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