Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 8

When he was about to die, he gave orders that his sons' wives should keep watch over him [after his death] for three nights, taking one night apiece; that his body should be placed in the outer chamber,[376] and that his sons' wives should spin wool to make him a caftan.

Who acts: Moujik, wives · What happens: be, die, give, keep, take, place · To what, where: orders, body, outer chamber, wool, caftan, Moujik

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moujik, wives), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 about	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 die	mark
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	conj
10	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 keep	obj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sons	nmod:poss
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wives	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 sons	case
15	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 keep	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 orders	acl:relcl
18	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obl
21	[	[	PUNCT	_	24 death	punct
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 death	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 death	nmod:poss
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 orders	nmod
25	]	]	PUNCT	_	24 death	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 nights	case
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 nights	nummod
28	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 taking	punct
30	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 gave	advcl
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 night	nummod
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taking	obj
33	apiece	apiece	ADV	_	30 taking	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 placed	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 placed	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 body	nmod:poss
37	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 placed	nsubj:pass
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 placed	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 placed	aux:pass
40	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 about	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 chamber	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 chamber	det
43	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 chamber	amod
44	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 placed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 376	punct
46	[	[	PUNCT	_	47 376	punct
47	376	376	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	44 chamber	appos
48	]	]	PUNCT	_	47 376	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 spin	cc
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 spin	mark
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 sons	nmod:poss
52	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 wives	nmod:poss
53	'	's	PART	_	52 sons	case
54	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 spin	nsubj
55	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 spin	aux
56	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 placed	conj
57	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 spin	obj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 make	mark
59	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 spin	advcl
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 make	obj
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 caftan	det
62	caftan	caftan	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 make	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Moujik					about property	tree rules
2	die	to-infinitive	Moujik not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	give	past	Moujik	orders			after Moujik's death; night		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	keep	should	Moujik's sons's wives	orders				over Moujik	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme watch=Attribute
5	take	gerund	Moujik not said here				night	apiece property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	place	should · passive		Moujik's body		the outer chamber			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in chamber=Destination
7	spin	should	Moujik's sons's wives	wool					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wool=Theme
8	make	to-infinitive	Moujik's sons's wives not said here	a caftan	Moujik				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary caftan=Product
9	die		Moujik						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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