Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 72

When God's bright day dawned, the people came to clean out the church and sweep away his bones; but there he was reading his prayers, and the rumour of it went through the town and they were all filled with joy.

Who acts: people, first, rumour, church · What happens: dawn, come, clean out, sweep away, read, go · To what, where: church, bones, prayers, town, people

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 (people, first, rumour, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dawned	advmod
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 day	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 God	case
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dawned	obl:unmarked
6	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dawned	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 clean	mark
12	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 clean	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clean	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sweep	cc
17	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 clean	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 sweep	advmod
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bones	nmod:poss
20	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sweep	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 reading	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 reading	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 reading	expl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 reading	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reading	aux
26	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dawned	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 prayers	nmod:poss
28	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reading	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rumour	det
32	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rumour	nmod
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reading	conj
36	through	through	ADP	_	38 town	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 town	det
38	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 filled	cc
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 filled	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 filled	aux:pass
42	all	all	ADV	_	43 filled	advmod
43	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 went	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 joy	case
45	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 filled	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dawned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dawn	participle				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the people					tree rules
3	clean out	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the church				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent church=Patient
4	sweep away	infinitive	the people not said here	God's bones			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bone=Trajectory
5	read	past · progressive	first	first's prayers	there			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
6	go	past	the rumour of church		the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location
7	fill	past · passive		people			with joy; all property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument
8	pray		first					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent
9	rumour		church					nom rumour «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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