Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 11
“Well,” said Ilyá Múromets, “that is the kind of man he was!”
Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilyá Múromets, that), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Múromets | compound |
| 7 | Múromets | Múromet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 kind | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kind | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Ilyá Múromets | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | the kind | of man | 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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