Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 37
But their chief joy was in this: that the Lord had presented them with a son, and such a beautiful son too!
Who acts: chief joy, roubles · What happens: be, present, joy · To what, where: this
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 (chief joy, roubles), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 presented | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 this | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 this | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 presented | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 presented | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lord | det |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presented | aux |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 presented | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 son | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 son | cc |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 son | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 son | amod |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | conj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 son | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | roubles's chief joy | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | present | past · perfect · passive | this | with a son; the Lord nsubj; roubles = rouble obj; such beautiful son conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | joy | roubles = rouble | nom joy «feeling 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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