Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 171
“You were not there three little minutes, but three whole years,” the Lord answered.
Who acts: You, Lord · What happens: not be, answer · 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 (You, Lord), 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 | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minutes | amod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 years | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 years | amod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lord | det |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | You | minute | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Lord | year | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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