Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 19
Now, the first wife of the merchant died, and he married a second.
Who acts: first wife, merchant · What happens: die, marry
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 (first wife, merchant), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 died | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 wife | amod |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 died | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 merchant | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 married | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 married | nsubj |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 died | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 second | det |
| 15 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the first wife of the merchant | now | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | merchant | second | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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