Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 94
Afterwards they came across an unholy spirit in human guise, and they asked him and received his reply.
Who acts: earnings, bet · What happens: come, ask, receive, reply · To what, where: unholy spirit, bet, reply
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 (earnings, bet), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 6 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirit | amod |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 guise | case |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 guise | amod |
| 10 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 received | cc |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reply | nmod:poss |
| 19 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | earnings = earning | a unholy spirit in human guise | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across spirit=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | earnings = earning | bet | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | earnings = earning not said here | bet's reply | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply | bet | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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