Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 142
On the other hand the memory of the black or evil god is preserved in such imprecations as the Ukraine "May the black god smite thee!"
Who acts: black god · What happens: preserve, smite · To what, where: memory, other hand, thee
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 (black god), 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 | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 preserved | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 memory | det |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 god | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 god | det |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 god | amod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 evil | cc |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 black | conj |
| 12 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 memory | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 preserved | aux:pass |
| 14 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 smite | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 imprecations | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 imprecations | amod |
| 17 | imprecations | imprecation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 preserved | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Ukraine | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ukraine | det |
| 20 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 preserved | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 May | punct |
| 22 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ukraine | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 god | det |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 god | amod |
| 25 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 smite | nsubj |
| 26 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 smite | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 smite | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 smite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | present · passive | the memory of the black god | the other hand | in such imprecations; as the Ukraine and May | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | smite in a quote | infinitive | the black god | thee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=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.
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