Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 119

And lo! there they both were on their knees praying fervently to God.

Who acts: bones, knees · What happens: be, pray · To what, where: knees, God

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, knees), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 there	cc
2	lo	lo	INTJ	_	4 there	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 lo	punct
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knees	nsubj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 knees	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knees	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 knees	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knees	nmod:poss
10	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	parataxis
11	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 knees	acl
12	fervently	fervently	ADV	_	11 praying	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 God	case
14	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 praying	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bones = bone			bones's knees			tree rules
2	pray	gerund	bones's knees not said here		God			fervently property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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