Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 145
He went a little way, and he heard children crying: “Brother of Christ, speak of us to Christ, whether we must be long in pain?”
Who acts: Lord, children, we · What happens: go, hear, cry, be · To what, where: little way, children, pain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lord, children, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 children | acl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Brother | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Brother | punct |
| 14 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Christ | case |
| 16 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Brother | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 speak | punct |
| 18 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Brother | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 speak | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Christ | case |
| 22 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 speak | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 long | punct |
| 24 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 28 long | mark |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 long | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 long | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 long | cop |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heard | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 pain | case |
| 30 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 long | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 long | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lord | a little way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Lord | children | Brother of Christ and speak of us to Christ obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | children not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | must | we | pain | long property | 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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