Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 83
From that day forward nobody died in that kingdom: they were born, and they kept on being born, and they never died.
Who acts: nobody, devils · What happens: die, bear, keep, not die · To what, where: devils
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 (nobody, devils), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 died | advmod |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 died | nsubj |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 died | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kept | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | conj |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 20 born | mark |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 born | aux:pass |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 kept | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 died | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 died | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 died | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 died | advmod |
| 25 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | nobody | day | in that kingdom; forward property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in kingdom=Attribute | |||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | devils = devil | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | devils = devil | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bear | gerund · passive | devils = devil not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 5 | not die | past | devils = devil | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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