--- title: The whole of the Pomeranian coast from Lübeck to the Memel was, prio… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The whole of the Pomeranian coast from Lübeck to the Memel was, prior to its conquest by the Saxons and the Brandenburgers, a Slavonic district, and the Isle of Rügen, in especial, the promontory of Arcona, a seat of the most highly developed Slavonic pagan ritual: Saxo Grammaticus has conserved us --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/57/) [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 Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/) / 57 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 57 The whole of the Pomeranian coast from Lübeck to the Memel was, prior to its conquest by the Saxons and the Brandenburgers, a Slavonic district, and the Isle of Rügen, in especial, the promontory of Arcona, a seat of the most highly developed Slavonic pagan ritual: Saxo Grammaticus has conserved us full details. **Who acts:** Saxo · **What happens:** be, develop, conserve · **To what, where:** us 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: who acts (Saxo), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:40:57 # text = The whole of the Pomeranian coast from Lübeck to the Memel was, prior to its conquest by the Saxons and the Brandenburgers, a Slavonic district, and the Isle of Rügen, in especial, the promontory of Arcona, a seat of the most highly developed Slavonic pagan ritual: Saxo Grammaticus has conserved us full details. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Pomeranian Pomeranian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Lübeck Lübeck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Memel Memel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 prior prior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 conquest conquest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Saxons Saxon PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Brandenburgers brandenburger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Slavonic Slavonic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 district district NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Isle Isle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Rügen Rügen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 especial especial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 promontory promontory NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Arcona Arcona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 47 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 48 advmod _ _ 48 highly highly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 developed develop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 amod _ _ 50 Slavonic Slavonic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 xcomp _ _ 51 pagan pagan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 ritual ritual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 53 : : PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 54 Saxo Saxo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 55 Grammaticus Grammaticus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 flat _ _ 56 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 conserved conserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 amod _ _ 58 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 iobj _ _ 59 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | of the Pomeranian coast from Lübeck to the Memel; Memel's conquest by the Saxons and the Brandenburgers a Slavonic district *conj*; the Isle of Rügen *parataxis*; whole *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **develop** | participle | | | | | | Slavonic *xcomp*; highly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **conserve** | present · perfect | Saxo | | us | | | | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/40/)