Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 139
If you think of it, what a big world God’s world is: in it rich and poor folk live, and there is room enough for them all; and the Lord overlooks and judges them all.
Who acts: you, big world, rich folk, room, Lord · What happens: think, be, live, overlook, judge · To what, where: folks
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 (you, big world, rich folk, room), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 think | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 think | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | nsubj |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 world | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 God | case |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 world | appos |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | cop |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 rich | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 rich | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rich | nsubj |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 folk | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 poor | cc |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rich | conj |
| 21 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 live | nsubj |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 is | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 is | expl |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 live | conj |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 28 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 27 room | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 room | nmod |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 overlooks | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 overlooks | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Lord | det |
| 35 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 overlooks | nsubj |
| 36 | overlooks | overlook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 judges | cc |
| 38 | judges | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 overlooks | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 judges | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | of life | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a big world | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | present | rich folk | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | present | room for folks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | overlook | present | the Lord | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | judge | present | the Lord not said here | folks = folk | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent they=Value |
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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