Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 170
“Why, we only took a short drink,” the Apostles answered, “and we were only away three little minutes.”
Who acts: we, Apostles · What happens: take, answer, be · To what, where: short drink · 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 (we, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 took | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 answered | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drink | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drink | amod |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Apostles | det |
| 13 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 away | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 away | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 away | cop |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 away | advmod |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 answered | conj |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 minutes | nummod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 minutes | amod |
| 24 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 away | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | we | a short drink | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Apostles | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | we | minute | away 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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