--- title: It is well known that in the days of heathenism the Slavonians worsh… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: It is well known that in the days of heathenism the Slavonians worshipped a thunder-god, Perun,[441] who occupied in their mythological system the place which in the Teutonic was assigned to a Donar or a Thor. Who acts: Slavonians. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/44/) [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 VI. LEGENDS, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/) / 44 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 44 It is well known that in the days of heathenism the Slavonians worshipped a thunder-god, Perun,\[441\] who occupied in their mythological system the place which in the Teutonic was assigned to a Donar or a Thor. **Who acts:** Slavonians · **What happens:** know, worshipp, occupy, assign · **To what, where:** order, thunder god, mythological system, place, Teutonic · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slavonians), 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:pg22373:57:44 # text = It is well known that in the days of heathenism the Slavonians worshipped a thunder-god, Perun,[441] who occupied in their mythological system the place which in the Teutonic was assigned to a Donar or a Thor. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 heathenism heathenism NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Slavonians Slavonian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 worshipped worshipp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Perun Perun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 441 441 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 occupied occupy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mythological mythological ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Teutonic Teutonic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 assigned assign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Donar donar NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Thor Thor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · passive | | order | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **worshipp** | past | the Slavonians | a thunder god | | | | 441 *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **occupy** | past | | | | Slavonians's mythological system | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **assign** | past · passive | | the place | | the Teutonic | | to a Donar or a Thor *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: which=Theme to donar=Goal | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/45/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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