Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 77
So the pope went to look for the old man, found him, and said: “Old man, I am a depraved sinner.
Who acts: pope · What happens: go, look, find, say, deprave, be · To what, where: pope, depraved sinner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pope), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pope | det |
| 3 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 19 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sinner | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 sinner | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sinner | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sinner | det |
| 25 | depraved | deprave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sinner | amod |
| 26 | sinner | sinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the pope | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the pope not said here | for the old man | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the pope not said here | pope | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the pope not said here | Old man and a depraved sinner ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | deprave in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the pope = pope | a depraved sinner | tree rules |
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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