Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 129

In one of them (No. 1) figures the ghoul which feeds on the dead, in several (Nos.

Who acts: one, ghoul · What happens: figure, feed · To what, where: ghoul

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (one, ghoul), 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	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 figures	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 No.	punct
6	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	2 one	appos
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 No.	flat
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 No.	punct
9	figures	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ghoul	det
11	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 figures	obj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 feeds	nsubj
13	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ghoul	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 dead	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dead	det
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feeds	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Nos	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 Nos	case
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Nos	amod
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 Nos	punct
21	Nos	Nos	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 feeds	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 figures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	present	one of spirits	the ghoul					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghoul=Patient
2	feed	present	the ghoul					in several Nos; on the dead	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on dead=Patient

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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