Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 12
He was joyous and thought, “It is now the time for me to go and look at the white world and to learn of people.”
Who acts: money, workman · What happens: be, think, go, look, learn · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, workman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 joyous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 joyous | cop |
| 3 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 joyous | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 time | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 time | cop |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 time | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 time | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 time | acl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 look | cc |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 world | amod |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 learn | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 learn | mark |
| 25 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 look | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 learn | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joyous | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 joyous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | money | joyous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | money not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | workman | the time | now | for money | tree rules | ||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | money not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | money not said here | at the white world | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at world=Theme | ||||
| 6 | learn in a quote | to-infinitive | money not said here | of people | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of people=Topic |
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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