Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 73
To God (_Bogu_) it gave the heavenly heights; to St. Peter the summer" (_Petrovskie_ so called after the Saint) "heats; to St. John, the ice and snow; to Nicholas, power over the waters, and to Ilya the lightning and the thunderbolt."
Who acts: Thunder, summer · What happens: give, call, heat · To what, where: heavenly heights, God, Petrovskie, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thunder, summer), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 God | case |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bogu | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bogu | punct |
| 5 | Bogu | Bogu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 God | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bogu | punct |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bogu | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heights | det |
| 11 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heights | amod |
| 12 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 heats | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Peter | case |
| 15 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Peter | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 heats | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 summer | det |
| 18 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heats | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 summer | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Petrovskie | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Petrovskie | punct |
| 22 | Petrovskie | Petrovskie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 summer | appos |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 called | advmod |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Petrovskie | acl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 Saint | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Saint | det |
| 28 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Petrovskie | punct |
| 31 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 John | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 John | case |
| 34 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 John | nmod:desc |
| 35 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 heats | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ice | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ice | det |
| 38 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 John | appos |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 snow | cc |
| 40 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ice | conj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 Nicholas | punct |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Nicholas | case |
| 43 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 power | punct |
| 45 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Nicholas | appos |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 waters | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 waters | det |
| 48 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 power | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Ilya | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 Ilya | cc |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 Ilya | case |
| 52 | Ilya | Ilya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | parataxis |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 lightning | det |
| 54 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 Ilya | appos |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 thunderbolt | cc |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 thunderbolt | det |
| 57 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 lightning | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 Ilya | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 Ilya | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Thunder | the heavenly heights | God | to Nicholas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent height=Theme to god=Recipient | ||
| 2 | call in a quote | participle | Petrovskie not said here | after the Saint | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | heat | present | the summer | Peter St. | to John St. | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to peter=Result |
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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