Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 80
“The evil neighbour can be escaped; so can the evil wife if one has children enough, but the weak intellect can never be got rid of.”
Who acts: one · What happens: escape, have, not get · To what, where: evil neighbour, children, weak intellect
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 (one), 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 escaped | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 neighbour | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 neighbour | amod |
| 4 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 escaped | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 escaped | aux:pass |
| 7 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 can | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 can | advmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 escaped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 can | nsubj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 has | mark |
| 15 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 escaped | advcl |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 has | obj |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 has | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 got | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 got | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 intellect | det |
| 22 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 intellect | amod |
| 23 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 got | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 got | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 got | aux:pass |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 escaped | conj |
| 28 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 got | xcomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rid | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 escaped | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape in a quote | can · passive | the evil neighbour | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | one | children | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 3 | not get in a quote | can · passive | the weak intellect | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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