Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 119

In modern times it has generally been a wizard, or a witch, or a suicide,[421] or a person who has come to a violent end, or who has been cursed by the Church or by his parents, who takes such an unpleasant means of recalling himself to the memory of his surviving relatives and acquaintances.

Who acts: origin, person, Church, wizard · What happens: be, come, curse, take, mean, recall · To what, where: wizard, violent end, person, memory

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 (origin, person, Church, wizard), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wizard	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wizard	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wizard	aux
6	generally	generally	ADV	_	9 wizard	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 wizard	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wizard	det
9	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 means	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 witch	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 witch	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wizard	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 suicide	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 suicide	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 suicide	det
17	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wizard	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 421	punct
19	[	[	PUNCT	_	20 421	punct
20	421	421	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 suicide	appos
21	]	]	PUNCT	_	20 421	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 person	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 person	det
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wizard	conj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 come	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 person	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 end	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 end	det
30	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 end	amod
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cursed	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 cursed	cc
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 cursed	nsubj:pass
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 cursed	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 cursed	aux:pass
37	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wizard	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 Church	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Church	det
40	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 cursed	obl
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 parents	cc
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 parents	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 parents	nmod:poss
44	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 Church	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 takes	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 takes	nsubj
47	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wizard	parataxis
48	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	50 unpleasant	det:predet
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 unpleasant	det
50	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 takes	xcomp
51	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
52	of	of	SCONJ	_	53 recalling	mark
53	recalling	recall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 means	advcl
54	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 recalling	obj
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 memory	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 memory	det
57	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 recalling	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 relatives	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 relatives	nmod:poss
60	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 relatives	amod
61	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 memory	nmod
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 acquaintances	cc
63	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 relatives	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	origin	a wizard or a witch or a suicide or a person		time	generally property	tree rules
2	come	present · perfect	a person			to a violent end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
3	curse	present · perfect · passive	the Church or person's parents	a wizard or a witch or a suicide or a person				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	take	present	a wizard or a witch or a suicide or a person				unpleasant property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	a wizard or a witch or a suicide or a person					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	recall	gerund	a wizard or a witch or a suicide or a person not said here	person	the memory of person's surviving relatives and acquaintances			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to memory=Destination
7	survive	gerund						vn exist-47.1-1 «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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