Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 50
And the pope is crying over the spilt money.”
Who acts: pope · What happens: cry · To what, where: spilt money
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 (pope), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crying | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pope | det |
| 3 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crying | aux |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 money | det |
| 8 | spilt | spilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 money | compound |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present · progressive | the pope | the spilt money | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over money=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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