Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 42
After the wife’s death the merchant mourned as it behoved, and then he thought of a second wife.
Who acts: merchant, misfortune, wife · What happens: mourn, behove, think, die
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 (merchant, misfortune, wife), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 wife | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mourned | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mourned | nsubj |
| 8 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 behoved | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 behoved | nsubj |
| 11 | behoved | behove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mourned | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 thought | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mourned | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 wife | amod |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | the merchant | after the wife's death | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | behove | past | merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | misfortune | then | of a second wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | die | the wife | nom death «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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