Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 75
And they were betrothed, and there was a merry feast for three days.
What happens: betroth, be · To what, where: ravines, merry feast
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 betrothed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 betrothed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 4 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feast | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 was | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feast | amod |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 betrothed | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feast | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | past · passive | ravines = ravine | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a merry feast | day | 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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