Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 1
“Now, sisters, our watchman has gone to sleep: it is time we set out on our promenade: it is time.”
Who acts: watchman, we, our · What happens: go, sleep, be, set out, promenade · To what, where: sisters, time, promenade
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, we, our), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sisters | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sisters | punct |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sisters | punct |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 watchman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gone | advcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 time | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 promenade | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 promenade | nmod:poss |
| 21 | promenade | promenade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 time | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 time | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 time | cop |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · perfect | our watchman | sisters | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | our watchman not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | watchman | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set out in a quote | past | we | time not said here | our promenade | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | watchman | time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | promenade in a quote | our | nom promenade «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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