Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 137
The master and mistress lived on and experienced good in their life, and they are still alive, if they are not dead.
Who acts: master, servants · What happens: live on, experience, be, not be · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, servants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mistress | cc |
| 4 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 master | conj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 lived | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 experienced | cc |
| 8 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lived | conj |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 experienced | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 experienced | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 alive | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 alive | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 alive | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 alive | cop |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 alive | advmod |
| 18 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lived | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dead | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 dead | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dead | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 dead | advmod |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 alive | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live on | past | the master and mistress | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | experience | participle | the master and mistress not said here | servants's life | good property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is | present | servants = servant | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | servants = servant | dead 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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