Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 44

Then the Tsar, her father, made a proclamation that people should come and read the prayers for the dead over her dead body, and so exorcise the evil spirit, and whosoever delivered her was to have half his power and half his tsardom.

Who acts: Tsar, proclamation, whosoever · What happens: make, come, read, exorcise, deliver, have · To what, where: proclamation, prayers, dead body, evil spirit, Spirit, power

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 (Tsar, proclamation, whosoever), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Tsar	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 proclamation	det
10	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	nsubj
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 proclamation	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 read	cc
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prayers	det
18	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 read	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 dead	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dead	det
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 read	obl
22	over	over	ADP	_	25 body	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 body	nmod:poss
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 body	amod
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 exorcise	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 exorcise	cc
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 exorcise	advmod
29	exorcise	exorcise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spirit	det
31	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spirit	compound
32	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 exorcise	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 delivered	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 delivered	cc
35	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 delivered	nsubj
36	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 delivered	obj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 have	aux
39	to	to	PART	_	40 have	mark
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 delivered	ccomp
41	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	43 power	det:predet
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 power	nmod:poss
43	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 tsardom	cc
45	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	47 tsardom	det:predet
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 tsardom	nmod:poss
47	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 power	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Tsar	a proclamation		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product
2	come	should	a proclamation					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	read	infinitive	a proclamation not said here	the prayers	Tsar's dead body		for the dead	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
4	exorcise	infinitive	the Tsar not said here	the evil spirit				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spirit=Source
5	deliver	past	whosoever	Spirit				tree rules
6	have	past	whosoever not said here	man's power and man's tsardom				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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: «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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