Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 117
So they resolved at last: “Let us both go to sleep at the same time, and the one which wakes up earlier and first reaches the Khvalýnsk Sea is wiser and stronger and the more honourable.”
Who acts: VAZÚZA, one, first · What happens: resolve, let, go, sleep, wake up, reach · To what, where: last, us, Khvalýnsk Sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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, one, first), 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 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 resolved | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Let | punct |
| 8 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 resolved | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Let | obj |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Let | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sleep | mark |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sleep | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wiser | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wiser | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wiser | nsubj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 wakes | nsubj |
| 23 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 wakes | compound:prt |
| 25 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 wakes | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 reaches | cc |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 reaches | nsubj |
| 28 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wakes | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sea | det |
| 30 | Khvalýnsk | Khvalýnsk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Sea | compound |
| 31 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 reaches | obj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 wiser | cop |
| 33 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 resolved | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stronger | cc |
| 35 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 wiser | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 honourable | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 more | det |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 honourable | advmod |
| 39 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wiser | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | VAZÚZA = vazúza | last | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | VAZÚZA = vazúza not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | VAZÚZA = vazúza not said here | both property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | VAZÚZA = vazúza not said here | time | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wake up in a quote | present | the one | early property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | reach in a quote | present | first | the Khvalýnsk Sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | the one | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | the one not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | be in a quote | the one 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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