Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 88

Appeals for aid to a dead parent are of frequent occurrence in the songs still sung by the Russian peasantry at funerals or over graves; especially in those in which orphans express their grief, calling upon the grave to open, and the dead to appear and listen and help.

Who acts: Appeals, orphans, those · What happens: be, sing, express, call, open, appear · To what, where: songs, grief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Appeals, orphans, those), 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	Appeals	appeal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 occurrence	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 aid	case
3	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Appeals	nmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 parent	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 parent	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parent	amod
7	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aid	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 occurrence	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 occurrence	case
10	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 occurrence	amod
11	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 songs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 songs	det
14	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sung	obl
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 sung	advmod
16	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 occurrence	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 peasantry	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 peasantry	det
19	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 peasantry	amod
20	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sung	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 funerals	case
22	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sung	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 graves	cc
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 graves	case
25	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 funerals	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 calling	punct
27	especially	especially	ADV	_	29 those	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 those	case
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 calling	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 express	obl
32	orphans	orphan	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 express	nsubj
33	express	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 those	acl:relcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 grief	nmod:poss
35	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 express	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 calling	punct
37	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 sung	advcl
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 grave	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 grave	det
40	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 calling	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 open	mark
42	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 calling	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 dead	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 dead	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 dead	det
46	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 occurrence	parataxis
47	to	to	PART	_	48 appear	mark
48	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 dead	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 listen	cc
50	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 appear	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 help	cc
52	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 listen	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 occurrence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Appeals for aid to a dead parent				of frequent occurrence	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	participle			the songs	still	by the Russian peasantry; at funerals or graves	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in song=Location
3	express	present	orphans	orphans's grief				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme
4	call	gerund	those				upon the grave	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	open	to-infinitive	those not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	appear	to-infinitive	Appeals for aid to a dead parent not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	listen	infinitive	Appeals for aid to a dead parent not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	help	infinitive	Appeals for aid to a dead parent not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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