Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 2
“Their mother cursed them in the womb, and they can never enter Paradise.”
Who acts: mother, children · What happens: curse, not enter · To what, where: children, womb, Paradise
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 (mother, children), 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 | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
| 2 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | nsubj |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cursed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 womb | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 womb | det |
| 8 | womb | womb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enter | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 enter | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 enter | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 enter | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 enter | advmod |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cursed | parataxis |
| 15 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse in a quote | past | children's mother | children = child | the womb | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | not enter in a quote | can | children = child | Paradise | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme paradise=Destination |
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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