Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 92
But it was no good, for he could not keep the bear silent, and he began singing his song.
Who acts: DOG, guest · What happens: be, not keep, begin, sing · To what, where: bear, song
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, guest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 good | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 good | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 keep | advmod |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | conj |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 song | nmod:poss |
| 21 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 singing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | DOG | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not keep | could | guest | the bear | silent property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | |||
| 3 | begin | past | guest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | guest not said here | guest's song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing | guest | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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