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description: In Christian times the personality of the goddess (by whatever name she may have been known) to whom Friday was consecrated became merged in that of St. Prascovia, and she is now frequently addressed by the compound name of "Mother Pyatnitsa-Prascovia." Who acts: personality, compound name. A senten
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 66

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In Christian times the personality of the goddess (by whatever name she may have been known) to whom Friday was consecrated became merged in that of St. Prascovia, and she is now frequently addressed by the compound name of "Mother Pyatnitsa-Prascovia."

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**Who acts:** personality, compound name · **What happens:** know, consecrate, become, merge, address, name · **To what, where:** personality, Friday, that, Mother

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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 (personality, compound name), 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:pg22373:37:66
# text = In Christian times the personality of the goddess (by whatever name she may have been known) to whom Friday was consecrated became merged in that of St. Prascovia, and she is now frequently addressed by the compound name of "Mother Pyatnitsa-Prascovia."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Prascovia	Prascovia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
36	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	compound	compound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	Pyatnitsa	Pyatnitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Prascovia	Prascovia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | may · perfect · passive |  | personality |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consecrate** | past · passive |  | Friday |  |  |  | to the goddess | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **become** | past | the personality of the goddess |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **merge** | participle | the personality of the goddess *not said here* |  |  | that |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **address** | present · passive | the compound name of Mother | personality |  |  | now | frequently *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Mother |  |  |  |  | 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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