Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 33
And when he saw them weep, Nikíta the tanner himself almost felt the tears flowing.
Who acts: NIKÍTA, children, tears · What happens: see, weep, feel, flow · To what, where: children, Nikíta, tears
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 (NIKÍTA, children, tears), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Nikíta | punct |
| 8 | Nikíta | Nikíta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 weep | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tanner | det |
| 10 | tanner | tanner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weep | obj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 felt | advmod |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tanner | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tears | det |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 felt | obj |
| 16 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 tears | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta | children = child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | infinitive | children = child not said here | Nikíta | the tanner obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | feel | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta | the tears | almost property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 4 | flow | gerund | the tears not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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