Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 1
“Why, O Lord, are the children tortured?”
What happens: torture · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 tortured | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 Lord | discourse |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Why | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tortured | aux:pass |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tortured | nsubj |
| 10 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 tortured | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tortured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torture in a quote | present · passive | the children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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