Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 21

When the priest got up from the table, the people all began to thank their hosts, and the eldest son begged the priest to say the _sorokoust_[26] in the church for the repose of the dead man's soul. "

Who acts: priest, people, eldest son, soul · What happens: get up, begin, thank, beg, say, repose · To what, where: table, hosts, priest, church, _ sorokoust · 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 (priest, people, eldest son, soul), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 table	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 began	nsubj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 began	advmod
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 thank	mark
15	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hosts	nmod:poss
17	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thank	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 begged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 begged	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
21	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 son	amod
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 begged	nsubj
23	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 priest	det
25	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 begged	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 say	mark
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begged	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sorokoust	det
29	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sorokoust	compound
30	sorokoust	sorokoust	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 say	obj
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 begged	punct
32	[	[	PUNCT	_	33 26	punct
33	26	26	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 begged	obl
34	]	]	PUNCT	_	33 26	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 church	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 church	det
37	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 begged	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 repose	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 repose	det
40	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 church	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	46 soul	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 man	det
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 man	amod
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 soul	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 man	case
46	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 repose	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the priest		the table		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from table=Destination
2	begin	past	the people			all property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	the people not said here	children's hosts			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	the eldest son	the priest	the church for the repose of the dead man's soul	26 obl	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the priest not said here	the _ sorokoust			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorokoust=Topic
6	repose		the dead man's soul				nom repose «act intransitive»: of=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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