Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 45

After a time he reached Kief, visited the _Lavra_, prayed to God, bowed down before the holy relics, and then started again for his birthplace, a provincial town not far off.

Who acts: SOLDIER · What happens: reach, visit, pray, bow down, start · To what, where: Kief, Lavra, God, holy relics

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SOLDIER), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Kief	Kief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 visited	punct
8	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lavra	det
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Lavra	punct
11	Lavra	Lavra	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 visited	obj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 visited	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prayed	punct
14	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 God	case
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 prayed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bowed	punct
18	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prayed	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 bowed	compound:prt
20	before	before	ADP	_	23 relics	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 relics	det
22	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 relics	amod
23	relics	relic	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bowed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 started	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 started	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 started	advmod
27	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 started	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 birthplace	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 birthplace	nmod:poss
31	birthplace	birthplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 started	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 town	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 town	det
34	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 town	amod
35	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 birthplace	conj
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 off	advmod
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 off	advmod
38	off	off	ADV	_	35 town	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	SOLDIER	Kief			time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kief=Theme
2	visit	past		the Lavra					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lavra=Co-Agent
3	pray	past			God				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	bow down	past				the holy relics			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before relic=Location
5	start	past	SOLDIER not said here				then; again	for SOLDIER's birthplace and a provincial town	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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