--- title: According to Afanasief,[251] the Carinthian name for the day, _Sibne… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: According to Afanasief,[251] the Carinthian name for the day, _Sibne dan_, is a clear proof that it was once holy to Siva, the Lithuanian Seewa, the Slavonic goddess answering to Ceres. Who acts: name, Slavonic goddess. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/) / 65 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 65 According to Afanasief,\[251\] the Carinthian name for the day, \_Sibne dan\_, is a clear proof that it was once holy to Siva, the Lithuanian Seewa, the Slavonic goddess answering to Ceres. **Who acts:** name, Slavonic goddess · **What happens:** accord, be, answer · **To what, where:** clear proof, Siva, Ceres 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 (name, Slavonic goddess), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:37:65 # text = According to Afanasief,[251] the Carinthian name for the day, _Sibne dan_, is a clear proof that it was once holy to Siva, the Lithuanian Seewa, the Slavonic goddess answering to Ceres. 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 Afanasief Afanasief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 251 251 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 list _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Carinthian carinthian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Sibne Sibne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 17 dan Dan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 28 advmod _ _ 28 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 acl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Siva Siva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Lithuanian Lithuanian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Seewa Seewa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Slavonic slavonic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 39 answering answer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Ceres Ceres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a clear proof and the Slavonic goddess | | | | accord Afanasief | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | name | a clear proof and the Slavonic goddess *not said here* | Siva and the Lithuanian Seewa | | | holy, once *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Slavonic goddess *not said here* | | Ceres | | | | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ceres=Co-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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/66/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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