Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 134
“That means that my sons never put the brush back into its place and say the proper blessing.”
Who acts: That, sons · What happens: mean, not put back, say · To what, where: brush, place, proper blessing · 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, sons), 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 put | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 put | advmod |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 means | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brush | det |
| 10 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 place | nmod:poss |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 say | cc |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blessing | det |
| 18 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blessing | amod |
| 19 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 say | obj |
| 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not put back in a quote | infinitive | my sons | the brush | brush's place | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brush=Goal | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | my sons not said here | the proper blessing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=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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