Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 23

There didst thou bury them that we might not be able to keep watch over them.

Who acts: we · What happens: do, bury, not be, keep · To what, where: thou, pots, watch

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 didst	expl
2	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 didst	obj
4	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 didst	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bury	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 able	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 able	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 able	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 able	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	cop
11	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bury	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	xcomp
14	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 didst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		thou	there		tree rules
2	bury	infinitive		pots = pot			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	not is	might	we			able property	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	we not said here	watch		over pots = pot	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over they=Location

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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