Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 46

Every evening a man went into the church, and every morning they swept out his bones, for there was naught else of him remaining.

Who acts: man, people · What happens: go, sweep out, be, remain · To what, where: church, bones, naught

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 (man, people), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swept	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swept	obl:unmarked
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 swept	nsubj
14	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 swept	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bones	nmod:poss
17	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swept	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 naught	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 naught	cop
22	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 swept	obl
23	else	else	ADV	_	22 naught	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 naught	nmod
26	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 swept	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	a man		the church	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location
2	sweep out	past	people	man's bones		morning		tree rules
3	is a	past		naught			of man; else property	tree rules
4	remain	gerund	people not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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