Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 144
There was the Yagá-Búra again, and offering him an apple.
Who acts: Yagá Búra · What happens: be, offer · To what, where: apple, Búra
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yagá Búra), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Búra | det |
| 4 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Búra | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Yagá | punct |
| 6 | Búra | Búra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offering | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offering | cc |
| 10 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 offering | obj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 apple | det |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offering | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the Yagá Búra | there | again | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | gerund | the Yagá Búra not said here | a apple | Búra | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal apple=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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