Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 161
They went on and on and on, and the Apostles again said to the Saviour: “We are thirsty.”
Who acts: Christ, Apostles, We · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: Saviour · 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 (Christ, Apostles, We), 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 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 on | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 on | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Apostles | det |
| 11 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Saviour | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Saviour | det |
| 16 | Saviour | saviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 thirsty | punct |
| 19 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 thirsty | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thirsty | cop |
| 21 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 thirsty | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Christ | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | the Apostles | the Saviour | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to saviour=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | We | thirsty property | 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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