Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 43
Things simply happen; our exertions may sometimes be some good; we can only be quietly resigned.
Who acts: Things, exertions, our · What happens: happen, be, resign, exert · To what, where: we
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 (Things, exertions, our), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 3 happen | advmod |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 exertions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | exertions | exertion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 good | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | aux |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 good | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 good | cop |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 good | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 happen | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 resigned | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 resigned | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 resigned | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 resigned | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 resigned | aux:pass |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 18 resigned | advmod |
| 18 | resigned | resign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happen | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Things | simply property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | may | our exertions | good, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resign | can · passive | we | quietly property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exert | our | nom exertion «act transitive»: poss=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: «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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