Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 16
In the morning the soldier rose and began asking: “Is it true that there was a wedding celebrated here?”
Who acts: soldier, sleep, wedding · What happens: rise, begin, ask, be, celebrate · To what, where: wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, sleep, wedding), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 began | xcomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
| 12 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 true | nsubj |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wedding | det |
| 19 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 20 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wedding | acl |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 celebrated | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 celebrated | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the soldier | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the soldier not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the soldier not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | sleep | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | a wedding | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | celebrate in a quote | participle | a wedding not said here | here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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