Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 86
Then the ambassadors retired, and they waited one hour and another hour, and they knocked again: “This is not the time and season to sleep; this is the time and season to get up.”
Who acts: ambassadors, This · What happens: retire, wait, knock, not be, sleep, be · To what, where: time · 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 (ambassadors, This), 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 retired | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ambassadors | det |
| 3 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 retired | nsubj |
| 4 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waited | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waited | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waited | nsubj |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 retired | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hour | nummod |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hour | cc |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hour | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knocked | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knocked | nsubj |
| 17 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 retired | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 knocked | advmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocked | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 time | punct |
| 21 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 time | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 time | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 time | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knocked | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 season | cc |
| 27 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sleep | mark |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 time | acl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 time | punct |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 time | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 time | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retired | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 season | cc |
| 36 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 time | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 get | mark |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 time | acl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 get | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retired | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past | the ambassadors | then | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | ambassadors = ambassador | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | knock | past | ambassadors = ambassador | again | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | This | the time and season | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | ambassadors = ambassador not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | this | the time and season | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get up in a quote | to-infinitive | the ambassadors not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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