Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 106
Then they met a passer-by, a beggar singing psalms.
Who acts: MÚROMETS, beggar · What happens: meet, sing · To what, where: passer, psalms
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MÚROMETS, beggar), 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 | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 passer | det |
| 5 | passer | passer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 by | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 passer | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beggar | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beggar | det |
| 10 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passer | appos |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 beggar | acl |
| 12 | psalms | psalm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 singing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | MÚROMETS = múromet | a passer | then | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passer=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | a beggar not said here | psalms | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme |
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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