Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 150
At midday the sun was very hot, and the Apostles wanted to drink.
Who acts: sun, Apostles · What happens: be, want, drink · To what, where: midday
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 (sun, Apostles), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midday | case |
| 2 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hot | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 hot | advmod |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Apostles | det |
| 11 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drink | mark |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | midday | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | past | the Apostles | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Apostles not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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