Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 88
The dog saw that his master’s guests had drunk too much, and made ready to receive his friend.
Who acts: dog · What happens: see, drink, make, receive · To what, where: guests, 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 (dog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 drunk | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guests | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 master | case |
| 8 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drunk | aux |
| 10 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drunk | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 receive | mark |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 receive | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | drink | past · perfect · passive | guest's master's guests | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the dog not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | receive | to-infinitive | the dog not said here | guest's friend | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
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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