Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 49
Seven days passed, and Iván buried his father, and his mother soon afterwards, and began to trade.
Who acts: Seven days, Iván · What happens: pass, bury, begin, trade · To what, where: mother, father
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 (Seven days, Iván), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 buried | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 buried | cc |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | nsubj |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mother | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mother | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 afterwards | advmod |
| 15 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 trade | mark |
| 20 | trade | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Seven days | Iván's mother | afterwards property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bury | past | Iván | Iván's father | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Seven days not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | trade | to-infinitive | Seven days not said here | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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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