Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 2
When he saw the animal in this condition, he would not take it; but went with the poor man before Judge Shemyák.
Who acts: brother · What happens: see, not take, go · To what, where: animal, condition
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animal | det |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 condition | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 condition | det |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 Shemyák | case |
| 23 | Judge | Judge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Shemyák | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Shemyák | Shemyák | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | brother | the animal | this condition | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not take | would | brother | animal | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | brother not said here | before Shemyák Judge | with the poor man | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary |
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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