--- title: When the priest got up from the table, the people all began to thank… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the priest got up from the table, the people all began to thank their hosts, and the eldest son begged the priest to say the _sorokoust_[26] in the church for the repose of the dead man's soul. " Who acts: priest, people, eldest son, soul. 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" **Who acts:** priest, people, eldest son, soul · **What happens:** get up, begin, thank, beg, say, repose · **To what, where:** table, hosts, priest, church, \_ sorokoust · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, 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 (priest, people, eldest son, soul), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:23:21 # text = When the priest got up from the table, the people all began to thank their hosts, and the eldest son begged the priest to say the _sorokoust_[26] in the church for the repose of the dead man's soul. " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 all all ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 sorokoust sorokoust NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 repose repose NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | the priest | | | the table | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from table=Destination | | 2 | **begin** | past | the people | | | | | all *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | children's hosts | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the eldest son | the priest | | the church for the repose of the dead man's soul | | 26 *obl* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the priest *not said here* | the \_ sorokoust | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorokoust=Topic | | 6 | **repose** | | the dead man's soul | | | | | | nom repose «act 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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/22/) - ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/)