Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 113
According to them, as well as to their parallels elsewhere, a stake must be driven through the murderous corpse.
What happens: accord, drive · To what, where: directions, murderous corpse
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: 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 | According | accord | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stake | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 According | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 parallels | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 10 parallels | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 parallels | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 parallels | nmod:poss |
| 10 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 According | obl |
| 11 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 1 According | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 According | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stake | det |
| 14 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 driven | obl |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 driven | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 driven | aux:pass |
| 17 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 corpse | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 corpse | det |
| 20 | murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 corpse | amod |
| 21 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 driven | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | directions = direction | to directions's parallels; elsewhere property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to they=Goal | ||||
| 2 | drive | must · passive | the murderous corpse | accord a stake | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: through corpse=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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