Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 78
In Russia Saints’ days are kept in place of birthdays.
What happens: keep · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Saints | compound |
| 3 | Saints | Saint | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 days | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 3 Saints | case |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birthdays | case |
| 11 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 place | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | place of birthdays | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in place=Location |
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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