Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 42
The stories relate experiences in succession, attempt no judgment, do not even affirm their own credibility.
Who acts: stories · What happens: relate, attempt, not affirm · To what, where: experiences, succession, judgment, own credibility
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 (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 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 relate | nsubj |
| 3 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 relate | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 succession | case |
| 6 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 relate | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 attempt | punct |
| 8 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 relate | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 judgment | det |
| 10 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attempt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 affirm | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 affirm | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 affirm | advmod |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 affirm | advmod |
| 15 | affirm | affirm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 attempt | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 credibility | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 credibility | amod |
| 18 | credibility | credibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 affirm | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 relate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | the stories | experiences | in succession goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent experience=Theme in succession=Goal | |||
| 2 | attempt | infinitive | no judgment | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not affirm | infinitive · do-support | stories's own credibility | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer credibility=Stimulus |
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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