Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 130
Then the gates of Paradise opened, and the souls began to go in; and this guilty soul also went in, and for sheer joy forgot all about the soldier.
Who acts: gates, souls, guilty soul · What happens: open, begin, go in, forget
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gates, souls, guilty soul), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gates | det |
| 3 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Paradise | case |
| 5 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gates | nmod |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 souls | det |
| 10 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 soul | det |
| 18 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 soul | amod |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forgot | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 forgot | cc |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 26 | sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 joy | compound |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forgot | obl |
| 28 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 forgot | advmod |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 soldier | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 soldier | det |
| 32 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forgot | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the gates of Paradise | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the souls | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go in | to-infinitive | the souls not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go in | past | this guilty soul | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | forget | past | this guilty soul not said here | for sheer joy; about the soldier; all property | 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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