Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 133
Ványa went back home as though he had never been there; and the brothers told him where they had been, what they had done and seen; and he listened as though he had never heard of it before.
Who acts: Ványa, brothers, fields, brother · What happens: go back, not be, tell, be, do, see · To what, where: Ványa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ványa, brothers, fields, brother), 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 | Ványa | Ványa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 there | advmod |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 there | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 there | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 there | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 went | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brothers | det |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 been | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 been | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 been | aux |
| 21 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 done | obj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seen | cc |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 done | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 listened | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 listened | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 listened | nsubj |
| 32 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 listened | advmod |
| 34 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 heard | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 heard | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 heard | aux |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 heard | advmod |
| 38 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 listened | advcl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 heard | obl |
| 41 | before | before | ADV | _ | 38 heard | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Ványa | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | past · perfect | Ványa | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the brothers | Ványa | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be | past · perfect | fields = field | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | fields = field | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | see | participle | fields = field not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | listen | past | brother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not hear | past · perfect | brother | of grave; before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
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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