Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 102
They went about like simple people, and nobody could have known that it was Christ and the twelve Apostles.
Who acts: Christ, earth · What happens: go about, know, be · To what, where: nobody, Christ
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christ, earth), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 known | cc |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 known | aux |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 Christ | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Christ | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Christ | cop |
| 16 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Apostles | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Apostles | det |
| 19 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 Apostles | nummod |
| 20 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Christ | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | past | Christ | like simple people; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | could · perfect · passive | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | earth | Christ and the twelve Apostles | the twelve Apostles conj | 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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