Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 61
The little sun warmed them, and the rye was warmed through, and waved like a field of gold.
Who acts: little sun · What happens: warm, wave · To what, where: fields, rye
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 (little sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sun | amod |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warmed | nsubj |
| 4 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 warmed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warmed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 warmed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rye | det |
| 9 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warmed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 warmed | aux:pass |
| 11 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 warmed | parataxis |
| 12 | through | through | ADV | _ | 11 warmed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waved | cc |
| 15 | waved | wave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 warmed | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 field | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 field | det |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waved | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 field | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 warmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | past | the little sun | fields = field | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | warm | past · passive | the rye | through property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wave | participle | like a field of gold | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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