Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 80
“Praise be to God,” answered the dog, “it is no mere living, it is butter week.
Who acts: Praise, God · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: dog, mere living, butter week · 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 (Praise, God), 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 | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 2 | Praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 God | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 God | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 God | case |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 living | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 living | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 living | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 living | cop |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 living | det |
| 16 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 living | amod |
| 17 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 week | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 week | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 week | cop |
| 21 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 week | compound |
| 22 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 living | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | Praise | to God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | God | the dog | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Praise | no mere living | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Praise | butter week | tree rules |
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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