Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 121
And the miller met him, greeted him kindly, brought a glass of wine, and they began speaking of all they had lived through and seen.
Who acts: miller, destroyer · What happens: meet, greet, bring, begin, speak, live through · To what, where: husband, glass · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (miller, destroyer), 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 met | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 miller | det |
| 3 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 greeted | punct |
| 7 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 greeted | obj |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 7 greeted | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 greeted | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 glass | det |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wine | case |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glass | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 lived | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 speaking | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lived | aux |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 began | parataxis |
| 26 | through | through | ADV | _ | 25 lived | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seen | cc |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 lived | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the miller | husband | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | the miller not said here | husband | kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | past | the miller not said here | a glass of wine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | destroyer | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | gerund | destroyer not said here | of all | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | live through | past · perfect | destroyer | through property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | participle | destroyer not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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