Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 3
He lived with her for some time, then he thought he would go to that far distant country where the Jews crucified Christ.
Who acts: He, Jews · What happens: live, think, go, crucify · To what, where: distant country, Christ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, Jews), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 thought | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 country | det |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 distant | advmod |
| 18 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 crucified | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Jews | det |
| 22 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 crucified | nsubj |
| 23 | crucified | crucify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 country | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 crucified | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | He | time | with her = she | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | he | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | would | he | that distant country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | crucify | past | the Jews | Christ | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christ=Patient |
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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