Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 12
There is my own brother faring abroad and making merry, but he forgets me!”
Who acts: own brother, brother · What happens: be, fare, make, forget · To what, where: me
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 (own brother, brother), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | faring | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 brother | acl |
| 7 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 6 faring | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 making | cc |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 faring | conj |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 making | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgets | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 forgets | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forgets | nsubj |
| 14 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forgets | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgets | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | my own brother | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fare | gerund | my own brother not said here | abroad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | my own brother not said here | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | forget | present | brother | me | 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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