Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 125
Eat, pray, and lie down to sleep, for the morning is wiser than the evening.”
Who acts: you, morning · What happens: eat, pray, lie down, sleep, be
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 (you, morning), 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 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lie | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lie | cc |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lie | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lie | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wiser | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 wiser | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wiser | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wiser | cop |
| 15 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 lie | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 evening | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evening | det |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wiser | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eat | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | infinitive | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | lie down | infinitive | you not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the morning | evening | wise 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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