Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 1

The Russian peasants have very confused ideas about the local habitation of the disembodied spirit, after its former tenement has been laid in the grave.

Who acts: Russian peasants · What happens: have, disembody, lay · To what, where: confused ideas, former tenement, grave

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian peasants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasants	det
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peasants	amod
3	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 confused	advmod
6	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ideas	amod
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 habitation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 habitation	det
10	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 habitation	amod
11	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ideas	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 spirit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spirit	det
14	disembodied	disembody	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 spirit	amod
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 habitation	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 laid	mark
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tenement	nmod:poss
19	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tenement	amod
20	tenement	tenement	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	nsubj:pass
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 laid	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 laid	aux:pass
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 have	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 grave	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grave	det
26	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Russian peasants	confused ideas		about the local habitation of the disembodied spirit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	disembody	participle					tree rules
3	lay	present · perfect · passive		spirit's former tenement	the grave		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination

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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