Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 127
“That means that they are bad friends, and the wife wants to get rid of the husband.”
Who acts: That, snakes, wife · What happens: mean, be, want, get · To what, where: bad friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, snakes, wife), 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 | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 friends | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 friends | cop |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 means | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wants | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wants | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wants | nsubj |
| 13 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wants | xcomp |
| 16 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 husband | det |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | That | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | snakes = snake | bad friends | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the wife not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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