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description: Then the Tsar, her father, made a proclamation that people should come and read the prayers for the dead over her dead body, and so exorcise the evil spirit, and whosoever delivered her was to have half his power and half his tsardom. Who acts: Tsar, proclamation, whosoever. A sentence of «Cossack F
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 44

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Then the Tsar, her father, made a proclamation that people should come and read the prayers for the dead over her dead body, and so exorcise the evil spirit, and whosoever delivered her was to have half his power and half his tsardom.

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**Who acts:** Tsar, proclamation, whosoever · **What happens:** make, come, read, exorcise, deliver, have · **To what, where:** proclamation, prayers, dead body, evil spirit, Spirit, power

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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 (Tsar, proclamation, whosoever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg29672:8:44
# text = Then the Tsar, her father, made a proclamation that people should come and read the prayers for the dead over her dead body, and so exorcise the evil spirit, and whosoever delivered her was to have half his power and half his tsardom.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	exorcise	exorcise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
41	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	43	det:predet	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	47	det:predet	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	tsardom	tsardom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Tsar | a proclamation |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product |
| 2 | **come** | should | a proclamation |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive | a proclamation *not said here* | the prayers |  | Tsar's dead body |  | for the dead | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic |
| 4 | **exorcise** | infinitive | the Tsar *not said here* | the evil spirit |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spirit=Source |
| 5 | **deliver** | past | whosoever | Spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | whosoever *not said here* | man's power and man's tsardom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

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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.

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**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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