Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 5
Now at this same time there was a new enlistment, and the lot fell on his younger brother, and they shaved his brow.
Who acts: lot, faith · What happens: be, shave · To what, where: brow
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 (lot, faith), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 was | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | obl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 enlistment | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 enlistment | amod |
| 10 | enlistment | enlistment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 brother | amod |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shaved | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shaved | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shaved | nsubj |
| 23 | shaved | shave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shaved | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lot | on enlistment's younger brother; fall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shave | past | faith | brother's brow | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Patient |
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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