Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 111
So long ago that neither our grandfathers, nor great-grandfathers, nor our great-great-grandfathers, nor our great-great-great-grandfathers recollect it.
Who acts: grandfathers · What happens: recollect · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfathers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 recollect | mark |
| 5 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 grandfathers | det |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grandfathers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 recollect | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grandfathers | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 grandfathers | cc |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grandfathers | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 great | punct |
| 12 | grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grandfathers | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grandfathers | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 grandfathers | cc |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 grandfathers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grandfathers | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grandfathers | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 great | punct |
| 20 | grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grandfathers | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 grandfathers | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 grandfathers | cc |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 grandfathers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grandfathers | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 great | punct |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grandfathers | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 great | punct |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grandfathers | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 great | punct |
| 30 | grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grandfathers | conj |
| 31 | recollect | recollect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ago | advcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 recollect | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recollect | present | our grandfathers nor great grandfathers nor our great great grandfathers nor our great great great grandfathers | name | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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