Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 17
So his kin answered him, “There was a wedding at the rich peasant’s house, only the bride and bridegroom died that same night.
Who acts: kin, house · What happens: answer, be, die · To what, where: wedding, house · 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 (kin, house), 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 | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 kin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 house | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 8 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 house | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wedding | det |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 peasant | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 peasant | amod |
| 15 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 peasant | case |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 died | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bride | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 bride | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bride | det |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bridegroom | cc |
| 23 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bride | conj |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 night | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 night | amod |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 died | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wedding's kin | wedding | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the rich peasant's house | the bride and bridegroom nmod; the rich peasant nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | past | the rich peasant's house | night | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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