Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 52
“My brothers set out to marry, but they could find no brides.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: set out, marry, find · To what, where: brides
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 (brothers), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 marry | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 brides | det |
| 14 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out in a quote | past | My brothers | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | My brothers not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | could | brothers = brother | no brides | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic |
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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