Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 133
Once in a certain country, in a certain kingdom, there lived two brothers; one was rich and the other poor.
Who acts: one · What happens: live, be · To what, where: two brothers
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 (one), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 lived | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kingdom | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 country | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 lived | expl |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 brothers | nummod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lived | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 rich | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 rich | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rich | cop |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lived | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 poor | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 poor | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 poor | amod |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rich | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | two brothers | there | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | one | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | one not said here | 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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