Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 30

In the Kalevala, when Lemmenkaeinen has been torn to pieces, his mother collects his scattered remains, and by a dexterous synthetical operation restores him to physical unity.

Who acts: mother · What happens: tear, collect, restore · To what, where: Lemmenkaeinen, Kalevala, scattered remains, physical unity

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Kalevala	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kalevala	det
3	Kalevala	Kalevala	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 torn	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Kalevala	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 torn	advmod
6	Lemmenkaeinen	Lemmenkaeinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 torn	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 torn	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 torn	aux:pass
9	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 torn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 collects	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 collects	nsubj
15	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 torn	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 remains	nmod:poss
17	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	18 remains	amod
18	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 collects	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 restores	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 restores	cc
21	by	by	ADP	_	25 operation	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 operation	det
23	dexterous	dexterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 operation	amod
24	synthetical	synthetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 operation	amod
25	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 restores	obl
26	restores	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 collects	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 restores	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 unity	case
29	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 unity	amod
30	unity	unity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 restores	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 torn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tear	present · perfect · passive		Lemmenkaeinen		the Kalevala	to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result
2	collect	present	Lemmenkaeinen's mother	Lemmenkaeinen's scattered remains				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Theme
3	restore	present	Lemmenkaeinen's mother not said here	Lemmenkaeinen	physical unity		by a dexterous synthetical operation	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to unity=Recipient

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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