Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 53

At last it came to the turn of the young man's uncles to read the prayers for the dead in the church.

Who acts: church · What happens: come, read · To what, where: last, prayers

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 (church), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 turn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 turn	det
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 uncles	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 uncles	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 man	case
13	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 read	mark
15	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prayers	det
17	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 read	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 dead	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dead	det
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 read	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 church	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 church	det
23	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dead	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	church			last		to the turn of the young man's uncles	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial_Location
2	read	to-infinitive	church not said here	the prayers				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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