Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 75

[413] But where it is customary to lay the dead body in the ground, "a peculiar half-life" becomes attributed to it by popular fancy, and by some races it is supposed to be actuated at intervals by murderous impulses.

Who acts: little, popular fancy, races, murderous impulses · What happens: be, lay, attribute, suppose, actuate · To what, where: customary, dead body, ground, 413, little, intervals

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 (little, popular fancy, races, murderous impulses), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 413	punct
2	413	413	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 attributed	nsubj:pass
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 413	punct
4	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 customary	cc
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 customary	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 customary	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 customary	cop
8	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 413	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lay	mark
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 customary	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 body	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 life	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 life	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 life	det
20	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 life	amod
21	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 life	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 half	punct
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ground	nmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 life	punct
25	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 attributed	aux:pass
26	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 attributed	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 fancy	case
30	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fancy	amod
31	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 attributed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 supposed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 supposed	cc
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 races	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 races	det
36	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 supposed	obl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 supposed	nsubj:pass
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 supposed	aux:pass
39	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 attributed	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 actuated	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 actuated	aux:pass
42	actuated	actuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 supposed	xcomp
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 intervals	case
44	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 actuated	obl
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 impulses	case
46	murderous	murderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 impulses	amod
47	impulses	impulse	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 actuated	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 attributed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	little	customary			tree rules
2	lay	to-infinitive	popular fancy not said here	the dead body		the ground a peculiar half life	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in ground=Destination
3	attribute	present · passive	popular fancy	413 but customary	little		tree rules
4	suppose	present · passive	some races	little			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	actuate	to-infinitive · passive	murderous impulses			intervals	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition

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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