Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 12
The rich man put in a plea to the Court that his poor brother had torn off the horse’s tail.
Who acts: poor brother · What happens: put, tear off · To what, where: rich man, plea, Court
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 plea | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plea | det |
| 7 | plea | plea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Court | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Court | det |
| 10 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 torn | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brother | amod |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 torn | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 torn | aux |
| 16 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 Court | acl:relcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 tail | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tail | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 torn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the rich man not said here | a plea | to the Court | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in plea=Destination | |||
| 2 | tear off | past · perfect | man's poor brother | the Court | off the horse's tail | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient tail=Result |
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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