Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 115
The Vólga and the Vazúza had a long argument whether who was the wiser and the stronger and the more honourable of the two.
Who acts: Vólga, long argument · What happens: have, be · To what, where: long argument
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 (Vólga, long argument), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Vólga | det |
| 2 | Vólga | Vólga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Vazúza | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Vazúza | det |
| 5 | Vazúza | Vazúza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vólga | conj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 argument | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 argument | amod |
| 9 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 wiser | mark |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wiser | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wiser | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wiser | det |
| 14 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 argument | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stronger | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stronger | det |
| 17 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 wiser | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 honourable | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 honourable | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 honourable | amod |
| 21 | honourable | honourable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wiser | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 two | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 two | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 honourable | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Vólga and the Vazúza | a long argument | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a long argument | the more honourable of the two conj; wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a long argument not said here | 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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