Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 78
“The first is an evil neighbour, the second an evil wife, and the third a weak understanding.”
Who acts: first, second · What happens: be, wife · To what, where: evil neighbour, weak understanding
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 (first, second), 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 | _ | 7 neighbour | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 neighbour | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 neighbour | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 neighbour | det |
| 6 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 neighbour | amod |
| 7 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 second | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 wife | nsubj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 neighbour | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 third | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 third | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 third | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 neighbour | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 understanding | det |
| 19 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 understanding | amod |
| 20 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 third | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 neighbour | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 neighbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the first | a evil neighbour and a evil wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wife in a quote | the second | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | the first not said here | a weak understanding | 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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