Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 7
Ilyá Múromets said, “My father had a gluttonous mare; it guzzled until its breath failed.”
Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, father, cauldron, breath · What happens: say, have, guzzle, fail · To what, where: gluttonous mare · 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, father, cauldron, breath), 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 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Múromets | compound |
| 2 | Múromets | múromet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mare | det |
| 10 | gluttonous | gluttonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mare | amod |
| 11 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 guzzled | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 guzzled | nsubj |
| 14 | guzzled | guzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 failed | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 failed | nsubj |
| 18 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 guzzled | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 guzzled | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 guzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ilyá Múromets | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | My father | a gluttonous mare | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Patient | ||||
| 3 | guzzle in a quote | past | cauldron | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fail in a quote | past | cauldron's breath | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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