Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 89
L when hard (e.g. before a, o, u) something like _ll_ in ‘pu_ll_’; when soft (e.g. before e, i) like _l_ in French ‘vi_l_.’
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: 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 | L | l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 hard | advmod |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 e.g. | punct |
| 5 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 3 hard | conj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 a | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 e.g. | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 u | punct |
| 9 | o | o | INTJ | _ | 11 u | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 u | punct |
| 11 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 e.g. | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 u | punct |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 e.g. | obj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 ll | case |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 16 | ll | ll | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 13 something | appos |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 ll | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pu | case |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 pu | punct |
| 20 | pu | pu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ll | nmod |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 ll | punct |
| 22 | ll | ll | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 13 something | appos |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 ll | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 ll | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 soft | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 soft | advmod |
| 27 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hard | conj |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 e.g. | punct |
| 29 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 33 i | advmod |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 e | case |
| 31 | e | e | INTJ | _ | 29 e.g. | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 e | punct |
| 33 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 l | nsubj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 i | punct |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 l | case |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 like | punct |
| 37 | l | l | X | _ | 27 soft | conj |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 l | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 French | case |
| 40 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 l | nmod |
| 41 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 l | punct |
| 42 | vi | vi | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 l | flat |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 44 l | punct |
| 44 | l | l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 l | flat |
| 45 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 soft | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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