Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 143

[459] To ancient pagan traditions, also, into which a Christian element has entered, may be assigned the popular belief that infants which have been cursed by their mothers before their birth, or which are suffocated during their sleep, or which die from any causes unchristened or christened by a drunken priest, become the prey of demons.

Who acts: mothers, infants · What happens: enter, assign, curse, suffocate, die, unchristen · To what, where: Christian element, 459, infants, causes, prey

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 (mothers, infants), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 459	punct
2	459	459	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 assigned	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 459	punct
4	To	to	ADP	_	7 traditions	case
5	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 traditions	amod
6	pagan	pagan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 traditions	amod
7	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 459	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entered	punct
9	also	also	ADV	_	17 entered	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entered	punct
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 entered	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 element	det
14	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 element	amod
15	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entered	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 entered	aux
17	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 459	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entered	punct
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 assigned	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 assigned	aux:pass
21	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 belief	det
23	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 belief	amod
24	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 assigned	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 suffocated	mark
26	infants	infant	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 suffocated	nsubj:pass
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 cursed	nsubj:pass
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 cursed	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 cursed	aux:pass
30	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 infants	acl:relcl
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 mothers	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mothers	nmod:poss
33	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cursed	obl
34	before	before	ADP	_	36 birth	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 birth	nmod:poss
36	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cursed	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 suffocated	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 suffocated	cc
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 suffocated	nsubj:pass
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 suffocated	aux:pass
41	suffocated	suffocate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 belief	acl
42	during	during	ADP	_	44 sleep	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 sleep	nmod:poss
44	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 suffocated	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 die	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 die	cc
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 die	nsubj
48	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 suffocated	conj
49	from	from	ADP	_	51 causes	case
50	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	51 causes	det
51	causes	cause	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 die	obl
52	unchristened	unchristen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 causes	acl
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 christened	cc
54	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 unchristened	conj
55	by	by	ADP	_	58 priest	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 priest	det
57	drunken	drunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 priest	amod
58	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 christened	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 become	punct
60	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 die	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 prey	det
62	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 become	xcomp
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 demons	case
64	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 prey	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 assigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present · perfect · passive		a Christian element				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	assign	may · passive		459 to ancient pagan traditions				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: belief=Theme
3	curse	present · perfect · passive	infants's mothers	infants		before infants's birth		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	suffocate	present · passive		infants		during infants's sleep		vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient
5	die	present			any causes			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from cause=Causer
6	unchristen	participle		any causes not said here				tree rules
7	christen	participle					by a drunken priest	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	become	infinitive		the prey of demons				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	sleep		infants = infant					nom sleep «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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