Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 134
There was another bout next day, and you could never see an end of the _boyárs_ and the lords seated at the royal palace.
Who acts: bout, you · What happens: be, not see, seat · To what, where: end, lords, royal palace
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 (bout, you), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 bout | det |
| 4 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | parataxis |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 boyárs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boyárs | det |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 boyárs | punct |
| 18 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 end | nmod |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lords | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lords | det |
| 22 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | conj |
| 23 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lords | acl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 26 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 palace | amod |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seated | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | another bout | there | day | the lords conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | not see | could | you | a end of the boyárs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seat | participle | the lords not said here | the royal palace | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=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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