Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 135
And the Apostles were astonished and said: “Lord, why do you bid him snatch the poor widow’s cow?
Who acts: Apostles, you · What happens: be, say, bid, snatch · To what, where: Lord, cow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Apostles, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 astonished | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Apostles | det |
| 3 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lord | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lord | punct |
| 10 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bid | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 bid | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bid | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bid | nsubj |
| 15 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bid | obj |
| 17 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bid | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 widow | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 widow | amod |
| 20 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cow | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 widow | case |
| 22 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snatch | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Apostles | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Apostles not said here | Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bid in a quote | present · do-support | you | Lord | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | snatch in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the poor widow's cow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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