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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 69

Kotlyarevsky, in his excellent work on their funeral customs, arrives at the conclusion that there never was any general rule on the subject, but that some Slavonians buried without burning, while others first burned their dead, and then inhumed their ashes.

Who acts: Kotlyarevsky, Slavonians, others · What happens: arrive, not be, bury, burn, inhum, work · To what, where: conclusion, general rule, subject, dead, ashes, funeral customs

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kotlyarevsky, Slavonians, others), 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

nsubjpunctcasenmod:possamodapposcasenmod:posscompoundnmodpunctcasedetoblmarkacladvmodcopdetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctccmarkdetnsubjconjmarkadvclpunctmarknsubjadvmodparataxisnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodconjnmod:possobjpunctrootKotlyarevskyPROPN,PUNCTinADPhisPRONexcellentADJworkNOUNonADPtheirPRONfuneralNOUNcustomsNOUN,PUNCTarrivesVERBatADPtheDETconclusionNOUNthatSCONJthereADVneverADVwasAUXanyDETgeneralADJruleNOUNonADPtheDETsubjectNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJthatSCONJsomeDETSlavoniansPROPNburiedVERBwithoutSCONJburningVERB,PUNCTwhileSCONJothersNOUNfirstADVburnedVERBtheirPRONdeadADJ,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVinhumedVERBtheirPRONashesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1KotlyarevskyKotlyarevskyPROPNNumber=Sing12 arrivesnsubj
2,,PUNCT_6 workpunct
3ininADP_6 workcase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 worknmod:poss
5excellentexcellentADJDegree=Pos6 workamod
6workworkNOUNNumber=Sing1 Kotlyarevskyappos
7ononADP_10 customscase
8theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 customsnmod:poss
9funeralfuneralNOUNNumber=Sing10 customscompound
10customscustomNOUNNumber=Plur6 worknmod
11,,PUNCT_1 Kotlyarevskypunct
12arrivesarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
13atatADP_15 conclusioncase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 conclusiondet
15conclusionconclusionNOUNNumber=Sing12 arrivesobl
16thatthatSCONJ_17 theremark
17therethereADVPronType=Dem15 conclusionacl
18neverneverADVPronType=Neg22 ruleadvmod
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 rulecop
20anyanyDETPronType=Ind22 ruledet
21generalgeneralADJDegree=Pos22 ruleamod
22ruleruleNOUNNumber=Sing12 arrivesobl
23ononADP_25 subjectcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 subjectdet
25subjectsubjectNOUNNumber=Sing22 rulenmod
26,,PUNCT_31 buriedpunct
27butbutCCONJ_31 buriedcc
28thatthatSCONJ_31 buriedmark
29somesomeDETPronType=Ind30 Slavoniansdet
30SlavoniansSlavonianPROPNNumber=Plur31 buriednsubj
31buriedburyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 arrivesconj
32withoutwithoutSCONJ_33 burningmark
33burningburnVERBVerbForm=Ger31 buriedadvcl
34,,PUNCT_38 burnedpunct
35whilewhileSCONJ_38 burnedmark
36othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur38 burnednsubj
37firstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord38 burnedadvmod
38burnedburnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 buriedparataxis
39theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 deadnmod:poss
40deaddeadADJDegree=Pos38 burnedobj
41,,PUNCT_44 inhumedpunct
42andandCCONJ_44 inhumedcc
43thenthenADVPronType=Dem44 inhumedadvmod
44inhumedinhumVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 burnedconj
45theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs46 ashesnmod:poss
46ashesashNOUNNumber=Plur44 inhumedobj
47..PUNCT_12 arrivespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrivepresentKotlyarevskythe conclusionvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2not is apastany general rulethe subjecttree rules
3burypastsome Slavoniansvn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4burngerundsome Slavonians not said herevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5burnpastothersSlavonians's deadfirst propertyvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
6inhumpastothers not said hereSlavonians's ashesthentree rules
7workKotlyarevskySlavonians's funeral customsnom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place

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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