Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 165
“It was the wind which was blowing something in my eye!”
Who acts: SUN · What happens: blow · To what, where: something
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 (SUN), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blowing | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 blowing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blowing | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wind | det |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blowing | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 blowing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blowing | aux |
| 8 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 blowing | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 eye | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eye | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blowing | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 blowing | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | past · progressive | SUN | something | in my eye; the wind nsubj; which nsubj | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Patient in eye=Topic |
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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