Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 49

And he commanded that all the foreign merchants passing through his realm should be made to read prayers for the dead over his daughter's body. "

Who acts: man, foreign merchants · What happens: command, pass, make, read · To what, where: realm, foreign merchants, prayers, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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, foreign merchants), 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	_	3 commanded	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 commanded	nsubj
3	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 merchants	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchants	det
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 merchants	amod
8	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	nsubj:pass
9	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 merchants	acl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 realm	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 realm	nmod:poss
12	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passing	obl
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 commanded	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 read	mark
17	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	xcomp
18	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 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	17 read	obl
22	over	over	ADP	_	26 body	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 body	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 daughter	case
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 read	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	command	past	man				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pass	gerund	all foreign merchants not said here		man's realm		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through realm=Location
3	make	should · passive		all foreign merchants			tree rules
4	read	to-infinitive	all foreign merchants not said here	prayers	man's daughter's body	for the dead	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic

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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