Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 93
That very same hour blood began to drip from the knife in the cottage, and the sister told the younger brother that the elder was dead.
Who acts: hour blood, sister, elder · What happens: begin, drip, tell, be · To what, where: knife, younger brother · 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 (hour blood, sister, elder), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 blood | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 same | advmod |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blood | compound |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drip | mark |
| 8 | drip | drip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 knife | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drip | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knife | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sister | det |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brother | det |
| 21 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 brother | amod |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 dead | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 elder | det |
| 25 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dead | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 dead | cop |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 told | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | that hour blood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drip | to-infinitive | that hour blood not said here | the knife in the cottage | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from knife=Source | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the sister | the younger brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the elder | dead property | tree rules |
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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