Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 126
So the merchant went and made a long journey to foreign kingdoms, but he could never see such a flower.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: go, make, not see · To what, where: long journey, flower
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 (merchant), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 journey | amod |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 kingdoms | case |
| 11 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kingdoms | amod |
| 12 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 flower | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flower | det |
| 21 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the merchant | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the merchant not said here | a long journey | to foreign kingdoms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | |||
| 3 | not see | could | merchant | such flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
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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