Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 2
There was once a priest who lived in the parish of St. Nicholas.
Who acts: priest · What happens: be, live · To what, where: parish
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest), 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 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 priest | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 parish | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parish | det |
| 10 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Nicholas | case |
| 12 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 parish | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a priest | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a priest | the parish of Nicholas St. | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in parish=Location |
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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