Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 41
The incidents follow almost haphazard; and at the end, the persons mentioned at the beginning may be forgotten; the stories are often almost as casual as real life.
Who acts: incidents, stories · What happens: follow, mention, forget, be · To what, where: haphazard, persons, beginning, end
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incidents, stories), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 incidents | det |
| 2 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 haphazard | advmod |
| 5 | haphazard | haphazard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgotten | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 forgotten | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forgotten | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 end | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 persons | det |
| 13 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 persons | acl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 beginning | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beginning | det |
| 17 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mentioned | obl |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 follow | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 casual | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stories | det |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 casual | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 casual | cop |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 casual | advmod |
| 26 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 casual | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 casual | advmod |
| 28 | casual | casual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 follow | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 life | amod |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 casual | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | the incidents | haphazard | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haphazard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | participle | the persons not said here | at the beginning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | forget | may · passive | the persons | at the end | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the stories | as real life; almost, casual, often property | tree rules |
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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