Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 69
There are two personifications, which call for special attention, those of Death and of Sorrow.
Who acts: two personifications · What happens: be, call · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two personifications), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 personifications | nummod |
| 4 | personifications | personification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 personifications | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 attention | case |
| 9 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 attention | amod |
| 10 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Death | punct |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 Death | det |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Death | case |
| 14 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 personifications | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Sorrow | cc |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Sorrow | case |
| 17 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Death | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | two personifications of that Death and Sorrow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present | two personifications of that Death and Sorrow | for special attention | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for attention=Recipient |
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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