Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 140
He had married and he had tied himself for all eternity, and, may-be, his entire life would go by in this misery.
Who acts: entire life · What happens: marry, tie, be, go · To what, where: angel
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 (entire life), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 married | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | aux |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tied | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tied | aux |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 married | conj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 tied | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 eternity | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 eternity | det |
| 11 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 be | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 be | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 be | punct |
| 17 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 married | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 married | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 misery | case |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 misery | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 misery | det |
| 27 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | angel | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tie | past · perfect · passive | angel | for all eternity | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient himself=Result | ||||
| 3 | be | may | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | would | angel's entire life | by this misery | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by misery=Location |
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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