Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 18
“Oh, father, I have lived so many years with you, I have so often walked in the garden, and I have never seen such a delightful bird as I saw there just now!”
Who acts: King · What happens: live, have, walk, not see, see · To what, where: garden, delightful bird
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 (King), 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 | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 lived | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | aux |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 have | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seen | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 seen | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 seen | advmod |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 lived | conj |
| 29 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 bird | det:predet |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bird | det |
| 31 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bird | amod |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seen | obj |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 saw | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | advcl |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 saw | advmod |
| 37 | just | just | ADV | _ | 38 now | advmod |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 saw | advmod |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present · perfect | the King = king | year | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the King = king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | walk in a quote | participle | the King = king not said here | the garden | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | the King = king | such delightful bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past | the King = king | there | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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