Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 9
Rich rooms; and food and drink of all sorts were on the table; and all was silent and empty.
Who acts: Rich rooms, all · What happens: be · To what, where: table
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 (Rich rooms, all), 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 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rooms | amod |
| 2 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 table | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 food | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 food | cc |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rooms | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drink | cc |
| 7 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 food | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sorts | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 food | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 table | cop |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 silent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 silent | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 silent | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 silent | cop |
| 19 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 table | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 empty | cc |
| 21 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 silent | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 table | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rich rooms and food of all sorts and drink | the table | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | all not said here | tree rules |
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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