--- title: When God's bright day dawned, the people came to clean out the churc… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:8:72 # text = 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. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 dawned dawn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 through through ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 42 all all ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/73/) - ↑ back to [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/)