Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 70
But the old man quieted him, and said that all of this was for the best.
Who acts: old man, all · What happens: quiet, say, be · To what, where: Iván · 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 (old man, all), 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 | _ | 5 quieted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quieted | nsubj |
| 5 | quieted | quiet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 quieted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quieted | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 best | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 best | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 this | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 all | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 best | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 best | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 best | det |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quieted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quiet | past | the old man | Iván | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | all of this | good property | tree rules |
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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