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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 93

Soon the news spread through the village, and the people assembled and rushed up to the cemetery, looked at the grave out of which the corpse had come, tore it up and dug into the dead man’s heart an oaken stake, so that he should never rise up and kill folks.

Who acts: news, people, corpse · What happens: spread, assemble, rush up, look, come, tore up · To what, where: village, grave, news, folks

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, people, corpse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

advmoddetnsubjcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjconjccconjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctconjcasedetoblcasecaseobldetnsubjauxacl:relclpunctparataxisobjcompound:prtccconjcasedetamodnmod:posscaseobldetamodconjpunctmarkfixednsubjauxadvmodadvclcompound:prtccconjobjpunctrootSoonADVtheDETnewsNOUNspreadVERBthroughADPtheDETvillageNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETpeopleNOUNassembledVERBandCCONJrushedVERBupADPtoADPtheDETcemeteryNOUN,PUNCTlookedVERBatADPtheDETgraveNOUNoutADPofADPwhichPRONtheDETcorpseNOUNhadAUXcomeVERB,PUNCTtoreVERBitPRONupADPandCCONJdugVERBintoADPtheDETdeadADJmanNOUN’sPARTheartNOUNanDEToakenADJstakeNOUN,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJhePRONshouldAUXneverADVriseVERBupADPandCCONJkillVERBfolksNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SoonsoonADVDegree=Pos4 spreadadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 newsdet
3newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing4 spreadnsubj
4spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5throughthroughADP_7 villagecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 villagedet
7villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing4 spreadobl
8,,PUNCT_12 assembledpunct
9andandCCONJ_12 assembledcc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 peopledet
11peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur12 assemblednsubj
12assembledassembleVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 spreadconj
13andandCCONJ_14 rushedcc
14rushedrushVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 assembledconj
15upupADP_14 rushedcompound:prt
16totoADP_18 cemeterycase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 cemeterydet
18cemeterycemeteryNOUNNumber=Sing14 rushedobl
19,,PUNCT_20 lookedpunct
20lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 assembledconj
21atatADP_23 gravecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 gravedet
23gravegraveNOUNNumber=Sing20 lookedobl
24outoutADP_26 whichcase
25ofofADP_26 whichcase
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel30 comeobl
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 corpsedet
28corpsecorpseNOUNNumber=Sing30 comensubj
29hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 comeaux
30comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part23 graveacl:relcl
31,,PUNCT_32 torepunct
32toretoreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 spreadparataxis
33ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 toreobj
34upupADP_32 torecompound:prt
35andandCCONJ_36 dugcc
36dugdigVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass32 toreconj
37intointoADP_42 heartcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 mandet
39deaddeadADJDegree=Pos40 manamod
40manmanNOUNNumber=Sing42 heartnmod:poss
41’s'sPART_40 mancase
42heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing36 dugobl
43anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art45 stakedet
44oakenoakenADJDegree=Pos45 stakeamod
45stakestakeNOUNNumber=Sing42 heartconj
46,,PUNCT_52 risepunct
47sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ52 risemark
48thatthatSCONJ_47 sofixed
49hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs52 risensubj
50shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin52 riseaux
51neverneverADVPronType=Neg52 riseadvmod
52riseriseVERBVerbForm=Inf36 dugadvcl
53upupADP_52 risecompound:prt
54andandCCONJ_55 killcc
55killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf52 riseconj
56folksfolkNOUNNumber=Plur55 killobj
57..PUNCT_4 spreadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spreadpastthe newsthe villagesoon propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Location
2assemblepastthe peoplevn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3rush uppastthe people not said hereto the cemetery resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cemetery=Result
4lookpastthe people not said hereat the gravevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at grave=Theme
5comepast · perfectthe corpsethe gravevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial_Location
6tore uppastnewstree rules
7digparticipleinto the dead man's heart and a oaken stakevn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into heart=Patient
8not rise upshouldcorpsevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9not killinfinitivecorpse not said herefolksvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme

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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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