Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 71

The stories of this class are very numerous, all of them based on the same belief--that in certain cases the dead, in a material shape, leave their graves in order to destroy and prey upon the living.

Who acts: stories, that · What happens: be, base, leave, destroy · To what, where: graves, certain cases

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 (stories, that), 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	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 numerous	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 class	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stories	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 numerous	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 numerous	advmod
8	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 belief	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 belief	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 all	nmod
13	based	base	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 belief	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 belief	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 belief	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 belief	amod
17	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 numerous	parataxis
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 leave	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 leave	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 cases	case
21	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cases	amod
22	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 leave	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dead	det
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cases	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shape	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 shape	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 shape	det
28	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shape	compound
29	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cases	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cases	punct
31	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 belief	parataxis
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 graves	nmod:poss
33	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 leave	obj
34	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 destroy	mark
35	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 in	fixed
36	to	to	PART	_	37 destroy	mark
37	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 leave	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 prey	cc
39	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 destroy	conj
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 living	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 living	det
42	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 destroy	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 numerous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the stories of this class			numerous property	tree rules
2	base	participle					vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent
3	leave	infinitive	that	stories's graves	certain cases and a material shape		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grave=Theme in case=Location
4	destroy	to-infinitive	that not said here			upon the living	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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