Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 167
They did not ever want to leave it, and they drank of it, and the water was so pure, so chilled, and so sweet.
Who acts: trees, water · What happens: do, not want, leave, drink, be, chill · To what, where: paradise
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 (trees, water), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drank | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drank | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drank | nsubj |
| 12 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drank | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pure | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pure | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pure | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pure | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 pure | advmod |
| 21 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drank | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 chilled | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 chilled | advmod |
| 24 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sweet | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sweet | cc |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 sweet | advmod |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chilled | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | trees = tree | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not want | infinitive | trees = tree not said here | ever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | trees = tree not said here | paradise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | trees = tree | of paradise | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the water | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | chill | participle | trees = tree not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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