Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 105
“Your Imperial Majesty, we saw no one on the road; we only saw a shepherd feeding a little sheep.”
Who acts: Imperial Majesty, we, shepherd · What happens: see, feed · To what, where: one, road, shepherd, little sheep
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty, we, shepherd), 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 | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Majesty | amod |
| 4 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 saw | advmod |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shepherd | det |
| 18 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 shepherd | acl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sheep | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sheep | amod |
| 22 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feeding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | Your Imperial Majesty | no one | the road | we nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | we | a shepherd | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feed in a quote | gerund | a shepherd not said here | a little sheep | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient |
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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