Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 96

Their relatives were delighted, but they immediately seized the moujik and bound him with cords, saying:

Who acts: relatives · What happens: be, seize, bind, say · To what, where: moujik · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (relatives), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 relatives	nmod:poss
2	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 delighted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seized	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 seized	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seized	nsubj
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	9 seized	advmod
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moujik	det
11	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bound	cc
13	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bound	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 cords	case
16	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bound	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 delighted	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	lives's relatives		delighted property	tree rules
2	seize	past	relatives = relative	the moujik	immediately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Theme
3	bind	past	relatives = relative not said here	moujik	with cords	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with cord=Co-Patient
4	say speech: assert	gerund	lives's relatives not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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