Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 116
They contended and quarrelled, and could not decide it.
Who acts: VAZÚZA · What happens: contend, quarrell, not decide · To what, where: 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 (VAZÚZA), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 contended | nsubj |
| 2 | contended | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 quarrelled | cc |
| 4 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 contended | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 decide | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 decide | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 decide | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 decide | advmod |
| 9 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 contended | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 decide | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contend | past | VAZÚZA = vazúza | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | quarrell | past | VAZÚZA = vazúza not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not decide | could | VAZÚZA = vazúza not said here | argument | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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