Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 148

According to Buddhist belief, the treasure which has belonged to anyone in a former existence may come to him in the shape of a man who, when killed, turns to gold.

Who acts: treasure · What happens: accord, belong, come, kill, turn · To what, where: Kazan, shape, man, gold

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure), 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 belief	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 belief	amod
4	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 belief	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 belonged	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 belonged	aux
10	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 treasure	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 belonged	obl:agent
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 existence	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 existence	det
15	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 existence	amod
16	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 anyone	nmod
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 shape	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shape	det
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 man	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shape	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 killed	nsubj:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 killed	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 killed	advmod
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 man	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turns	punct
32	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 gold	case
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turns	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	belong	present · perfect	the treasure					vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	come	may	the treasure		Kazan	the shape of a man	accord Buddhist belief	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	kill	participle · passive		a man				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	turn	present	the treasure not said here			gold		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to gold=Trajectory

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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