Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 109
And about midnight very many devils assembled on the boat and began to tell each other what tricks they had played.
Who acts: tricks · What happens: assemble, begin, tell, play · To what, where: many devils, boat, each, tricks, midnight · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (tricks), 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 | _ | 3 midnight | cc |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 midnight | advmod |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 devils | amod |
| 6 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 midnight | nmod |
| 7 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 devils | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 boat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assembled | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 assembled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 tell | obj |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 18 tricks | det |
| 18 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tell | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 played | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 played | aux |
| 21 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 tricks | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 midnight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | many devils not said here | the boat | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | each | what tricks obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient trick=Topic | ||||
| 4 | play | past · perfect | tricks = trick | what tricks not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
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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