Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 43
He was a handsome man and found many brides, but he liked one widow more than any one.
Who acts: misfortune · What happens: be, find, like · To what, where: handsome man, many brides, one widow
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 (misfortune), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brides | amod |
| 9 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 liked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 liked | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 liked | nsubj |
| 13 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 widow | nummod |
| 15 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 liked | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 liked | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | misfortune not said here | a handsome man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | misfortune | many brides | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic | ||||
| 3 | like | past | misfortune | one widow | 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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