Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 155
Then the Ram said: “My _shúba_ is very warm; I will pass the winter in this fashion.”
Who acts: Ram, shúba · What happens: say, be, pass · To what, where: fashion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ram, shúba), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ram | det |
| 3 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 warm | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 warm | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shúba | nmod:poss |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 shúba | punct |
| 9 | shúba | shúba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warm | nsubj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 shúba | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 warm | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 warm | advmod |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pass | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pass | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pass | aux |
| 17 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 warm | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 winter | det |
| 19 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pass | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fashion | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 fashion | det |
| 22 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pass | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 warm | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Ram | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | My shúba | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass in a quote | future | the Ram = ram | this fashion | winter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fashion=Location |
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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