Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 57
They are generally the corpses of wizards, or of other sinners who have led specially unholy lives, which leave their graves by night and wander abroad.
Who acts: lazybones, other sinners · What happens: be, lead, leave, wander · To what, where: corpses, unholy lives, graves
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: who acts (lazybones, other sinners), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 corpses | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 corpses | cop |
| 3 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 5 corpses | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corpses | det |
| 5 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wizards | case |
| 7 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 corpses | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sinners | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sinners | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sinners | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sinners | amod |
| 12 | sinners | sinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 corpses | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 led | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | aux |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 sinners | acl |
| 16 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 17 unholy | advmod |
| 17 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lives | amod |
| 18 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 led | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sinners | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 graves | nmod:poss |
| 23 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leave | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wander | cc |
| 27 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | conj |
| 28 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 27 wander | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 corpses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lazybones = lazybone | the corpses or other sinners | of wizards; generally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | present · perfect | other sinners | unholy lives | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | other sinners | lazybones's graves | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Theme | |||
| 4 | wander | present | other sinners not said here | abroad property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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