Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 118
Not far from his village there lived a miller in his mill: in past times the soldier had been great friends with him.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: live, be · To what, where: miller, village, great friends
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 lived | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 village | nmod:poss |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 miller | det |
| 9 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mill | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mill | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 friends | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 times | case |
| 15 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 friends | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soldier | det |
| 18 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 friends | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 friends | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 friends | cop |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friends | amod |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 friends | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a miller | husband's village; there | in husband's mill; far property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme miller=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | the soldier | great friends | time | with husband | 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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