Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 120
The brothers were overjoyed, went home and planted the Singing-Tree in the garden; it overspread the whole garden, and all kinds of birds began singing.
Who acts: garden, kinds · What happens: overjoy, go, plant, overspread, begin, sing · To what, where: brothers, Singing Tree, garden, whole garden
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 (garden, kinds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | parataxis |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 planted | cc |
| 9 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tree | det |
| 11 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Singing | punct |
| 13 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 planted | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 planted | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 overspread | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 overspread | nsubj |
| 19 | overspread | overspread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 garden | amod |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 overspread | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 began | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 began | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 kinds | det |
| 26 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 began | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 birds | case |
| 28 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kinds | nmod |
| 29 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 overspread | conj |
| 30 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 began | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | plant | past | the Singing Tree | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in garden=Destination | ||||
| 4 | overspread | past | garden | the whole garden | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | all kinds of birds | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | all kinds of birds not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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