Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 103
Some girls were out at night for the evening, and arranged for an evening party.
Who acts: girls · What happens: be, arrange · To what, where: evening
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 evening | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 evening | cop |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 were | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 were | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arranged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arranged | cc |
| 12 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 evening | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 party | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 party | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 party | compound |
| 16 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arranged | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | some girls | for the evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrange | participle | the evening not said here | for a evening party | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for party=Beneficiary |
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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