Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 6
And it so happened that he was made to serve in the very same regiment in which his brother was a general.
Who acts: it, brother · What happens: happen, make, serve, be · To what, where: brother, same regiment
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 (it, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 happened | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happened | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 serve | mark |
| 10 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 regiment | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 regiment | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 same | advmod |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 regiment | amod |
| 15 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 serve | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 general | obl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 general | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 general | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 general | det |
| 22 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 regiment | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | brother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | brother not said here | in the same regiment | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in regiment=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | past | brother's brother | the same regiment | general 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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