Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 160

Then the gnats and flies assemble, perform a funeral service over her remains, and carry them off on their shoulders to the village of Komarovo (_komar_ = gnat).

Who acts: gnats · What happens: assemble, perform, carry off · To what, where: funeral service, remains, gnats, shoulders

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnats), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 assemble	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gnats	det
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 assemble	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flies	cc
5	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gnats	conj
6	assemble	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 perform	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perform	punct
8	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 service	det
10	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 service	compound
11	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 perform	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 remains	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 remains	nmod:poss
14	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 perform	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carry	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carry	cc
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 perform	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carry	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 carry	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoulders	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carry	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 village	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 village	det
25	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carry	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Komarovo	case
27	Komarovo	Komarovo	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 village	nmod
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 komar	punct
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 komar	punct
30	komar	komar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Komarovo	appos
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 komar	punct
32	=	=	SYM	_	33 gnat	punct
33	gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 komar	conj
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 komar	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 perform	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assemble	present	the gnats and flies			then		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perform	present		a funeral service	Khudyakof's remains			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
3	carry off	infinitive		gnats = gnat	gnats's shoulders		to the village of Komarovo	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to village=Destination

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.

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