Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 116
I have been working for forty years in this church; not one bird has flown by, not one beast has rambled by.”
Who acts: I · What happens: work, not fly by, not ramble · To what, where: one bird, one beast
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 working | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 working | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 working | aux |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 working | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 working | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 flown | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 flown | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 bird | nummod |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 flown | aux |
| 16 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 working | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 flown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rambled | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 rambled | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 beast | nummod |
| 21 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rambled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 rambled | aux |
| 23 | rambled | ramble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 flown | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 rambled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 flown | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · perfect · progressive | I | year | in this church | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in church=Theme | |||
| 2 | not fly by | present · perfect · passive | one bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not ramble | present · perfect · passive | one beast | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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