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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 64

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But the day was undoubtedly consecrated by the old Slavonians to some goddess akin to Venus or Freyja, and her worship in ancient times accounts for the superstitions now connected with the name of Friday.

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**Who acts:** old Slavonians, Venus, Freyja · **What happens:** consecrate, connect, worship, name · **To what, where:** worship, ancient times accounts, Friday

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Slavonians, Venus, Freyja), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:37:64
# text = But the day was undoubtedly consecrated by the old Slavonians to some goddess akin to Venus or Freyja, and her worship in ancient times accounts for the superstitions now connected with the name of Friday.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	akin	akin	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Freyja	Freyja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	compound	_	_
26	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consecrate** | past · passive | the old Slavonians |  |  |  | day | to some goddess; undoubtedly *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **connect** | participle · passive | Venus or Freyja *not said here* | Freyja's worship in ancient times accounts for the superstitions |  |  | now | with the name of Friday | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with name=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **worship** |  | Freyja |  |  | ancient times accounts for the superstitions |  |  | nom worship «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Friday |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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