Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 64
Elijah looked blithely at the field and said: “Just look, Nicholas, what a blessing I have wrought!
Who acts: Elijah · What happens: look, say, have · To what, where: Nicholas, blessing · 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 (Elijah), 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 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blithely | blithely | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 11 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Nicholas | punct |
| 14 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 look | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blessing | det |
| 18 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 blessing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 have | xcomp |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Elijah | at the field; blithely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at field=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Elijah not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | Nicholas | what a blessing obl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | Elijah | a blessing not said here | wrought property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient |
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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