Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 119
It may be long, it may be short, the war he waged—we do not know.
Who acts: warfare, war, we · What happens: be, wage, not know
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 (warfare, war, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 long | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 short | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 short | cop |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waged | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 war | det |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waged | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waged | nsubj |
| 14 | waged | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 waged | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | warfare | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may | warfare | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wage | past | the war | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not know | present · do-support | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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