Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 111

A soldier had obtained leave to go home on furlough--to pray to the holy images, and to bow down before his parents.

What happens: obtain, go, pray, bow down · To what, where: soldier, furlough

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obtained	aux
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obtained	xcomp
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 furlough	case
10	furlough	furlough	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 pray	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pray	mark
13	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 images	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 images	det
16	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 images	amod
17	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pray	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bow	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bow	mark
21	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 obtained	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 bow	compound:prt
23	before	before	ADP	_	25 parents	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 parents	nmod:poss
25	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bow	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	past · perfect · passive	a soldier				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive		furlough		home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on furlough=Location
3	pray	to-infinitive				to the holy images	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	bow down	to-infinitive			before moujik's parents		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before parent=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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