Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 84
After the death of a witch her body is liable, says popular tradition, to be tenanted by a devil (as may be seen from No. iii.), and to corpses thus possessed have been attributed by the storytellers the terrible deeds which Indian tales relate of Rakshasas and other evil spirits.
Who acts: body, devil, storytellers, Indian tales, witch · What happens: be, say, tenant, see, possess, attribute · To what, where: witch, popular tradition, No., corpses, terrible deeds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (body, devil, storytellers, Indian tales), 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 death | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 witch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 death | nmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liable | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 liable | cop |
| 10 | liable | liable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 witch | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 death | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tradition | amod |
| 14 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tenanted | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 tenanted | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tenanted | aux:pass |
| 18 | tenanted | tenant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 says | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 devil | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 devil | det |
| 21 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tenanted | obl:agent |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 seen | mark |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tenanted | advcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 No. | case |
| 28 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 26 seen | obl |
| 29 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 28 No. | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 attributed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 attributed | cc |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 corpses | case |
| 35 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 37 possessed | advmod |
| 37 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 corpses | acl |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 attributed | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 attributed | aux:pass |
| 40 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 says | conj |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 storytellers | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 storytellers | det |
| 43 | storytellers | storyteller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 attributed | obl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 deeds | det |
| 45 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 deeds | amod |
| 46 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 attributed | obj |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 relate | obj |
| 48 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 tales | amod |
| 49 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 relate | nsubj |
| 50 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 deeds | acl:relcl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Rakshasas | case |
| 52 | Rakshasas | Rakshasas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 relate | obl |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 spirits | cc |
| 54 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 spirits | amod |
| 55 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 spirits | amod |
| 56 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 Rakshasas | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | witch's body | a witch not said here | liable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | popular tradition | after the death of a witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tradition=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tenant | to-infinitive · passive | a devil | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | may · passive | a devil not said here | No. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | possess | participle | corpses not said here | thus property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | attribute | present · perfect · passive | the storytellers | corpses | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | relate | present | Indian tales | the terrible deeds | of Rakshasas and other evil spirits | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 8 | die | a witch | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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