Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 1
So he began to pray to God, and went hungry for days on days; and he still went on praying.
Who acts: he, God · What happens: begin, pray, go · To what, where: God
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, God), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pray | mark |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pray | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 11 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 went | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 praying | mark |
| 22 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 went | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | he | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pray | to-infinitive | he not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | go | past | he not said here | day | hungry property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | God | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pray | gerund | God not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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