Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 20
So they showed him, and he said never a word, and went there, got there, and found the whole family in tears.
Who acts: bride, house · What happens: show, say, go, get, find · To what, where: house, word, whole family, tears · 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 (bride, 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 | _ | 3 showed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | conj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 word | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 got | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 family | amod |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tears | case |
| 26 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | bride | house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | house | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | find | past | bride not said here | the whole family | tears | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic |
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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