Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 14
So they changed the requiem for a merry festival, and lived out their lives, and lived on to receive more good yet!
Who acts: geese · What happens: change, live out, live on, receive · To what, where: requiem, lives, more
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 requiem | det |
| 5 | requiem | requiem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 festival | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 festival | det |
| 8 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 festival | amod |
| 9 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 lived | compound:prt |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lives | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lived | cc |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 receive | mark |
| 21 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lived | xcomp |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 receive | obj |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 more | amod |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 receive | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | geese = goose | the requiem | for a merry festival | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent requiem=Theme for festival=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | live out | past | geese = goose not said here | geese's lives | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 3 | live on | past | geese = goose not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | receive | to-infinitive | geese = goose not said here | more | yet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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