Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 54

There are districts, also, in which the people go to church in a body on Ilya's day, and after the service is over they kill and roast a beast which has been purchased at the expense of the community.

Who acts: districts, people · What happens: be, go, roast, purchase · To what, where: body, beast, expense

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (districts, people), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 also	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	2 are	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 go	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 church	case
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 body	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 body	det
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 day	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Ilya	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kill	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kill	cc
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 service	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 service	det
25	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kill	obl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 kill	cop
27	over	over	SCONJ	_	29 kill	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kill	nsubj
29	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 roast	cc
31	roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 kill	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 beast	det
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roast	obj
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 purchased	nsubj:pass
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 purchased	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 purchased	aux:pass
37	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 beast	acl:relcl
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 expense	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 expense	det
40	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 purchased	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 community	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 community	det
43	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 expense	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	districts		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	the people		a body	day	to church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	is	present	people			after the service	kill property	tree rules
4	roast	present	people not said here	a beast				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beast=Patient
5	purchase	present · perfect · passive		a beast	the expense of the community			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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