Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 29
Then the poor nobleman brought the golden flower out of his pocket, and the goblet, and said, “There is the testimony.”
Who acts: poor nobleman, testimony · What happens: bring, say, be · To what, where: golden flower, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poor nobleman, testimony), 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 | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nobleman | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nobleman | amod |
| 4 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flower | amod |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pocket | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pocket | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl | ||
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 goblet | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 goblet | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goblet | det |
| 16 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pocket | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 22 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 testimony | det |
| 25 | testimony | testimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the poor nobleman | the golden flower | nobleman's pocket and the goblet | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poor nobleman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | the testimony | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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