Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 90
So they quarrelled about this, and at last they decided, “We will each go our own way.
Who acts: clubs, We · What happens: quarrell, decide, go · To what, where: last, own way · 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 (clubs, We), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 quarrelled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 3 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 quarrelled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decided | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decided | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 decided | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decided | nsubj |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 quarrelled | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | ccomp |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quarrelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrell | past | clubs = club | about this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | clubs = club | last | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | We | our own way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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