Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 26
When the judge heard of this, he crossed himself piously and said: “Thank God I decided for the right party.”
Who acts: judge, I · What happens: hear, cross, say, thank, decide · To what, where: Judge, God · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (judge, I), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 judge | det |
| 3 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crossed | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 crossed | nsubj |
| 9 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 crossed | obj |
| 11 | piously | piously | ADV | _ | 9 crossed | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Thank | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Thank | punct |
| 16 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Thank | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 decided | nsubj |
| 19 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Thank | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 party | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 party | det |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 party | amod |
| 23 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 decided | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Thank | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the judge | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cross | past | Judge | Judge | piously property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | God | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | decide in a quote | past | I | for the right party | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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