Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 42
Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gave her little child the breast, and began weeping:
Who acts: mother · What happens: come, throw off, give, begin · To what, where: birds, feathers, breast, little child, weeping
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 (mother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 baby | det |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 baby | case |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 feathers | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 threw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 child | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 child | amod |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 breast | det |
| 21 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 25 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the baby's mother | birds = bird | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | throw off | past | the baby's mother not said here | mother's feathers | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the baby's mother not said here | the breast | mother's little child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient breast=Theme | |||
| 4 | begin | past | weeping | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weeping=Eventuality |
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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