Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 108
But the bones came and sat at the table just like men, and said to the maidens, “Now give us the brandy.”
Who acts: bones · What happens: come, sit, say, give · To what, where: table, maidens, brandy, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bones), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bones | det |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sat | cc |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 men | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 maidens | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maidens | det |
| 18 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 21 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 give | advmod |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brandy | det |
| 25 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the bones | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | the bones not said here | the table | like men | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the maidens | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | the brandy | us | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient brandy=Theme |
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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