Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 13
But they had long, long ago been praying for the repose of his soul at home, and how glad they were to see him turn up alive and sound!
Who acts: geese, Fílyushka, soul · What happens: have, pray, see, turn up, repose · To what, where: home, Fílyushka
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese, Fílyushka, soul), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 praying | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 praying | advmod |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 praying | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 praying | aux |
| 9 | praying | pray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 repose | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 repose | det |
| 12 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 praying | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 soul | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soul | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repose | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 praying | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 glad | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glad | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 glad | advmod |
| 21 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 glad | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | xcomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 turn | compound:prt |
| 29 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 turn | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sound | cc |
| 31 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 alive | conj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | geese = goose | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pray | participle · progressive | geese = goose not said here | home | for the repose of Fílyushka's soul; ago, long property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for repose=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | geese = goose | Fílyushka | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn up | infinitive | Fílyushka not said here | alive property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | repose | Fílyushka's soul | nom repose «act intransitive»: of=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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