Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 155
And it was only at this moment that the peasant boy understood that he was speaking to Jesus Christ Himself.
Who acts: hedge, peasant boy, boy · What happens: be, understand, speak · To what, where: boy, Jesus · 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 (hedge, peasant boy, boy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moment | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 moment | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moment | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 moment | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 understood | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 understood | nsubj |
| 12 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moment | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 speaking | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 speaking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 speaking | aux |
| 16 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 understood | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Jesus | case |
| 18 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 speaking | obl |
| 19 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Jesus | flat |
| 20 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 speaking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hedge | at this moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | the peasant boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | boy | boy | Jesus | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to jesus=Co-Agent |
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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