Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 28
He used to say a _Te Deum_ to Nicholas, and burn a taper, but never gave as much as a thought to the Prophet Elijah.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: use, say, burn, not give · To what, where: _, taper, much · 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 (peasant), 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 | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 _ | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 _ | appos |
| 8 | Deum | Deum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Te | flat |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nicholas | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Nicholas | case |
| 11 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Te | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burn | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burn | cc |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 taper | det |
| 16 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burn | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 gave | advmod |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 used | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gave | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 thought | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thought | det |
| 25 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 much | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Elijah | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Elijah | det |
| 28 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Elijah | compound |
| 29 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 thought | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | peasant | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | a _ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent _=Topic | ||||
| 3 | burn | infinitive | peasant not said here | a taper | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent taper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not give | past | peasant not said here | much | as a thought to the Prophet Elijah | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
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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