Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 117
As she clomb downhill, she saw boulders standing upright, and sprinkled them with the Water of Life; and her brothers jumped up alive and said: “Oh, what a long sleep we have had!”
Who acts: girl, boulders, brothers, we · What happens: see, stand, sprinkle, jump up, say, have · To what, where: boulders, long sleep · 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 (girl, boulders, brothers, we), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 clomb | case |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clomb | compound |
| 3 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 4 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 3 clomb | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clomb | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 boulders | acl |
| 10 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 9 standing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sprinkled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sprinkled | cc |
| 13 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sprinkled | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Water | det |
| 17 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sprinkled | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Life | case |
| 19 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Water | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 jumped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jumped | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 jumped | nsubj |
| 24 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 jumped | compound:prt |
| 26 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 jumped | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 jumped | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 what | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 what | punct |
| 31 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 33 what | discourse |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Oh | punct |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 said | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 sleep | det |
| 35 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sleep | amod |
| 36 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 what | nsubj |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 had | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 had | aux |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 sleep | acl:relcl |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 jumped | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | girl | boulders | as she clomb | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer boulder=Stimulus as clomb=Attribute | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | boulders not said here | upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sprinkle | past | girl not said here | boulders = boulder | with the Water of Life | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme | |||
| 4 | jump up | past | girl's brothers | alive property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | girl's brothers not said here | what a long sleep parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present · perfect | we | a long sleep not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
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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