Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 59

The priest will not bury his sinful body, so it is thrust into a hole at a crossway," and he falls into the power of "that very same devil," who turns him into a horse, and uses him as a beast of burden.

Who acts: priest, body · What happens: not bury, be, fall, turn, use · To what, where: sinful body, hole, thrust, power, priest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, body), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bury	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bury	advmod
5	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thrust	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 thrust	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thrust	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thrust	cop
13	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bury	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 crossway	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crossway	det
19	crossway	crossway	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hole	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crossway	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 crossway	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 falls	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 falls	nsubj
24	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bury	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 power	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 power	det
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 falls	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	33 devil	case
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 devil	punct
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 devil	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 same	advmod
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 devil	amod
33	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 power	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 turns	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 turns	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 turns	nsubj
37	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 falls	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 turns	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 horse	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 horse	det
41	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turns	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 uses	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 uses	cc
44	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bury	parataxis
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 uses	obj
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 beast	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 beast	det
48	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 uses	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 burden	case
50	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 beast	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bury	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bury	future	the priest	priest's sinful body	a hole at a crossway		tree rules
2	is a	present	body	thrust			tree rules
3	fall in a quote	present	priest			into the power of that same devil result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result
4	turn in a quote	present		priest		into a horse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Theme into horse=Result
5	use in a quote	present		priest		as a beast of burden	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Duration as beast=Attribute

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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