Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 50

Where the river-gods [vodyanóy], or the wood-sprites [lěši], have human form, it is to a certain extent because they have been contaminated with the Christian Devil.

Who acts: river gods, form, Christian Devil · What happens: have, be, contaminate · To what, where: human form, gods

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 (river gods, form, Christian Devil), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 have	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gods	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 river	punct
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	nsubj
6	[	[	PUNCT	_	7 vodyanóy	punct
7	vodyanóy	vodyanóy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gods	appos
8	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 vodyanóy	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sprites	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 sprites	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sprites	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprites	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 wood	punct
14	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gods	conj
15	[	[	PUNCT	_	16 lěši	punct
16	lěši	lěši	X	Foreign=Yes	14 sprites	conj
17	]	]	PUNCT	_	14 sprites	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gods	punct
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 extent	advcl
20	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 form	amod
21	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 extent	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 extent	cop
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 extent	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 extent	det
27	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 extent	amod
28	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 contaminated	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 contaminated	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 contaminated	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 contaminated	aux:pass
33	contaminated	contaminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 extent	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 Devil	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Devil	det
36	Christian	Christian	PROPN	_	37 Devil	flat
37	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 contaminated	obl:agent
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 extent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the river gods or the wood sprites	human form		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
2	is	present	form		to a certain extent	tree rules
3	contaminate	present · perfect · passive	the Christian Devil	gods = god		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 50