Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 48
They were just returning to their kingdom with empty hands, and they were provoked.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: return, provoke · To what, where: brothers
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returning | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returning | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 returning | advmod |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returning | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hands | amod |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kingdom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 provoked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 provoked | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 provoked | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 provoked | aux:pass |
| 15 | provoked | provoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returning | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · progressive | brothers = brother | to brothers's kingdom with empty hands result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result | ||||
| 2 | provoke | past · passive | brothers = brother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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