Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 19

They buried him as God commands.

Who acts: children, God · What happens: bury, command · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, 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 (children, God), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buried	nsubj
2	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buried	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 commands	mark
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 commands	nsubj
6	commands	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 buried	advcl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 buried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	children = child	man					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	command	present	God						vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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