Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 23
The great national divinities were proscribed and submerged; some of their features reappearing in the legendary feats of the saints.
Who acts: features, divinities · What happens: proscribe, submerge, reappear, feature · To what, where: great national divinities, legendary feats
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (features, divinities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 4 divinities | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 divinities | amod |
| 3 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 divinities | amod |
| 4 | divinities | divinity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 proscribed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proscribed | aux:pass |
| 6 | proscribed | proscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 submerged | cc |
| 8 | submerged | submerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 proscribed | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 some | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 proscribed | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 features | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 features | nmod:poss |
| 13 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 some | nmod |
| 14 | reappearing | reappear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 features | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 feats | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feats | det |
| 17 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feats | amod |
| 18 | feats | feat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reappearing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 saints | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 saints | det |
| 21 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feats | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proscribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proscribe | past · passive | the great national divinities | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | submerge | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | reappear | gerund | divinities's features not said here | the legendary feats of the saints | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in feat=Location | ||||
| 4 | feature | divinities = divinity | nom feature «cognition transitive»: 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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