Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 149
“Sssh, woman, that is hollow ground out of which the treasure comes forth.”
Who acts: that, treasure · What happens: be, come · To what, where: hollow ground, Sssh
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 (that, treasure), 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 | _ | 2 Sssh | punct |
| 2 | Sssh | Sssh | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sssh | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ground | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 ground | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ground | cop |
| 8 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ground | amod |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sssh | appos |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 comes | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 treasure | det |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ground | parataxis |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sssh | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sssh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | hollow ground | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | the treasure | hollow ground | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial_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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