--- title: Soon the news spread through the village, and the people assembled a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:2:93 # text = 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. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 assembled assemble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cemetery cemetery NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 oaken oaken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 stake stake NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 47 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 52 mark _ _ 48 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 fixed _ _ 49 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 50 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 53 up up ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 conj _ _ 56 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | past | the news | | | the village | | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Location | | 2 | **assemble** | past | the people | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rush up** | past | the people *not said here* | | | | | to the cemetery *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cemetery=Result | | 4 | **look** | past | the people *not said here* | | | | | at the grave | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at grave=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past · perfect | the corpse | | | the grave | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **tore up** | past | | news | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **dig** | participle | | | | | | into the dead man's heart and a oaken stake | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into heart=Patient | | 8 | **not** **rise up** | should | corpse | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **kill** | infinitive | corpse *not said here* | folks | | | | | vn 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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/94/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/)