Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 87

In the morning the people came to sweep away his bones, and lo! they found him alive.

Who acts: people · What happens: come, sweep away, find · To what, where: bones, Michael

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), 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 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sweep	mark
8	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 sweep	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bones	nmod:poss
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sweep	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
14	lo	lo	INTJ	_	17 found	discourse
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 lo	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	obj
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 found	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the people		morning		tree rules
2	sweep away	to-infinitive	the people not said here	Michael's bones		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bone=Trajectory
3	find	past	people	Michael		alive property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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