Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 129
An old man was dying, and he was enjoining on his son not to forget the poor.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: die, enjoin, not forget · To what, where: poor
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 (old man, man), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dying | aux |
| 5 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 enjoining | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 enjoining | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enjoining | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enjoining | aux |
| 10 | enjoining | enjoin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dying | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enjoining | obl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 forget | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 forget | mark |
| 16 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enjoining | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 poor | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 forget | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · progressive | a old man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | enjoin | past · progressive | man | on man's son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not forget | to-infinitive | man not said here | the poor | 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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