Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 41
They haggled and bargained, and at last agreed.
Who acts: fields · What happens: haggle, bargain, agree · To what, where: last
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 (fields), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 haggled | nsubj |
| 2 | haggled | haggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bargained | cc |
| 4 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 haggled | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 agreed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 agreed | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 agreed | obl |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bargained | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 haggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haggle | past | fields = field | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bargain | past | fields = field not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | fields = field not said here | last | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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