Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 150
We are breaking up this box and with our needles sewing it together again, and as soon as we have done that Death will come to us.”
Who acts: We, needles, Death · What happens: break up, sew, do, come · To what, where: box, us
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, needles, Death), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 breaking | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 breaking | aux |
| 3 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 breaking | compound:prt |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaking | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sewing | cc |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 sewing | mark |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 needles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sewing | nsubj |
| 11 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 breaking | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sewing | obj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 sewing | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 sewing | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 done | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 done | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 done | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 breaking | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 24 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 done | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaking | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | present · progressive | We | this box | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sew | gerund | our needles | box | again | together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | we | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | future | Death | us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location |
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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