Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 128
Just about then there was a great disaster threatening the Tsar.
Who acts: great disaster · What happens: be, threaten · To what, where: Tsar
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 (great disaster), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 about | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 was | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 disaster | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disaster | amod |
| 8 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 disaster | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tsar | det |
| 11 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 threatening | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great disaster | there | then | about property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | threaten | gerund | a great disaster not said here | the Tsar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tsar=Experiencer |
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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