Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 103

The Lusatian Wends hold that when a corpse chews its shroud or sucks its own breast, all its kin will soon follow it to the grave.

Who acts: Lusatian Wends, corpse, kin · What happens: hold, chew, suck, follow · To what, where: shroud, own breast, breast, grave

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lusatian Wends, corpse, kin), 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 Wends	det
2	Lusatian	Lusatian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wends	compound
3	Wends	wend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 follow	mark
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 chews	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 corpse	det
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chews	nsubj
9	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 follow	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shroud	nmod:poss
11	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chews	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sucks	cc
13	sucks	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chews	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 breast	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 breast	amod
16	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sucks	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chews	punct
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 kin	det:predet
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 kin	nmod:poss
20	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 follow	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 follow	aux
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 follow	advmod
23	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hold	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 follow	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 grave	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grave	det
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 follow	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the Lusatian Wends				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chew	present	a corpse	heart's shroud			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shroud=Patient
3	suck	present	a corpse not said here	heart's own breast			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breast=Source
4	follow	future	breast's kin	breast	the grave	soon property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to grave=Trajectory

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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