Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 52
In the evening a merchant was shut up in the church, and in the early morning they came and found and swept away his bones.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: shut up, come, find, sweep away · To what, where: merchant, church, bones
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shut | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shut | aux:pass |
| 7 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 shut | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shut | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morning | det |
| 16 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 morning | amod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shut | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 swept | cc |
| 23 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 swept | advmod |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bones | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 swept | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past · passive | a merchant | the church | evening | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | merchants = merchant | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | merchants = merchant not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sweep away | past | merchants = merchant not said here | man's bones | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bone=Trajectory |
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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