Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 102
When he reached home he saw that a son had been born to him, the Tsarévich, and he began to kiss him and to fondle him.
Who acts: man · What happens: reach, see, bear, begin, kiss, fondle · To what, where: son, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 born | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 born | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 born | aux:pass |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 born | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tsarévich | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tsarévich | det |
| 17 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 born | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 began | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 kiss | mark |
| 23 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kiss | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fondle | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fondle | mark |
| 27 | fondle | fondle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 kiss | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fondle | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | man | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bear | past · perfect · passive | a son | man | the Tsarévich obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | begin | past | man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | kiss | to-infinitive | man not said here | man | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | fondle | to-infinitive | man not said here | man | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |
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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