Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 75
This all suited the dog very well, and he ate his fill, and he said, “May God grant health to the bear who did not let me die of hunger!” and he became the bear’s best friend.
Who acts: This, peasant, God, bear · What happens: suit, eat, say, grant, not let, die · To what, where: dog, fill, health, bear, peasant, best friend · 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 (This, peasant, God, bear), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 suited | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 suited | advmod |
| 3 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suited | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 suited | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ate | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | nsubj |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suited | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fill | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ate | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suited | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grant | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 grant | punct |
| 20 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 grant | aux |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 grant | nsubj |
| 22 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grant | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bear | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bear | det |
| 26 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grant | obl |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 let | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 let | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 let | advmod |
| 30 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bear | acl:relcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 let | obj |
| 32 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 let | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 hunger | case |
| 34 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 die | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 grant | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 grant | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 became | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 became | nsubj |
| 39 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suited | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bear | det |
| 41 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 friend | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 bear | case |
| 43 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 friend | amod |
| 44 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 became | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | past | This | the dog | all, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | past | peasant | peasant's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | grant in a quote | may | God | health | to the bear goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent health=Theme to bear=Goal | |||
| 5 | not let in a quote | past · do-support | the bear | peasant | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | die in a quote | infinitive | peasant not said here | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | ||||
| 7 | become | past | peasant | the bear's best friend | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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