Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 129

[361] Very important also is the Polish story told by Wojcicki[362] of the village which is attacked by the Plague, embodied in the form of a woman, who roams from house to house in search of victims.

Who acts: 361, Plague, woman · What happens: be, tell, attack, embody, roam, form · To what, where: Polish story, village, form, house, woman, victims · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (361, Plague, woman), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 361	punct
2	361	361	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 story	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 361	punct
4	Very	very	ADV	_	5 important	advmod
5	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 361	appos
6	also	also	ADV	_	5 important	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	Polish	polish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 story	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 Wojcicki	case
13	Wojcicki	Wojcicki	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl:agent
14	[	[	PUNCT	_	15 362	punct
15	362	362	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 story	appos
16	]	]	PUNCT	_	15 362	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 village	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 village	det
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 attacked	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 attacked	aux:pass
22	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 village	acl:relcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 Plague	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Plague	det
25	Plague	Plague	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 attacked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 embodied	punct
27	embodied	embody	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 story	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 form	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 form	det
30	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 embodied	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 woman	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 woman	det
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 form	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 roams	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 roams	nsubj
36	roams	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 woman	acl:relcl
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 house	case
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 roams	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 house	case
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 roams	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 search	case
42	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 house	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 victims	case
44	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 search	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	361	the Polish story		of the village	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		the Polish story not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	attack	present · passive	the Plague	the village			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	embody	participle			the form of a woman		tree rules
5	roam	present	a woman		house	to house in search of victims	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination
6	form			a woman			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	search			victims			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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