Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 46
And the main reason that they so called her was because Vasilísa Vasílyevna loved _vódka_—a custom ill-befitting a maid.
Who acts: girls, main reason · What happens: call, be, befit · To what, where: main reason, VASILÍSA · 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 (girls, main reason), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 loved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 3 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reason | amod |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loved | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | acl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 loved | cop |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 loved | mark |
| 12 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | Vasílyevna | Vasílyevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Vasilísa | flat |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 vódka | punct |
| 16 | vódka | vódka | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 loved | obj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 vódka | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 maid | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 maid | det |
| 20 | custom | custom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 maid | amod |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 befitting | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ill | punct |
| 23 | befitting | befit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 maid | amod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 maid | det |
| 25 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loved | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | girls = girl | the main reason not said here | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the main reason | Vasilísa nsubj; a custom befitting maid conj; love property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | befit | gerund | tree rules |
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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