Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 130
They gave him a rich spread, and showed him the Singing-Tree and the Talking-Bird.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: give, show · To what, where: rich spread, King
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 (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spread | det |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spread | amod |
| 6 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tree | det |
| 12 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Singing | punct |
| 14 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Bird | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bird | det |
| 17 | Talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Bird | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Talking | punct |
| 19 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Tree | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | brothers = brother | a rich spread | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient spread=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | brothers = brother not said here | King | the Singing Tree and the Talking Bird ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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