Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 90
The guests began singing songs, and the bear wanted to chime in.
Who acts: guests, bear · What happens: begin, sing, want, chime in · To what, where: songs
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 (guests, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 singing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wanted | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 chime | mark |
| 12 | chime | chime | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 chime | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the guests | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the guests not said here | songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | the bear | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | chime in not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bear not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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