Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 118
“Your Imperial Majesty, we could not find the shepherd with the little lamb: the only thing we saw on the road was a church and an old man as pope.”
Who acts: Imperial Majesty, we, only thing · What happens: not find, see, be · To what, where: shepherd, only thing, road, church
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, only thing), 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 | _ | 9 find | 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 | 9 find | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shepherd | det |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 lamb | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lamb | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lamb | amod |
| 15 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shepherd | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 church | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 church | nsubj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thing | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 church | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 church | det |
| 27 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 man | cc |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 church | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 pope | case |
| 33 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 church | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find in a quote | could | Your Imperial Majesty | the shepherd | with the little lamb; we nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Topic | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | we | the only thing not said here | the road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | the only thing | a church and a old man | as pope; a old man conj | tree rules |
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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