Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 17
So the poor man crossed himself, said “Glory be to Thee, O Lord! now I can break the fast.”
Who acts: poor man, Glory · What happens: cross, say, be, break · To what, where: man, fast · 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 (poor man, Glory), 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 | _ | 5 crossed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | nsubj |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 crossed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crossed | conj |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Thee | punct |
| 10 | Glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Thee | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Thee | cop |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Thee | case |
| 13 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lord | punct |
| 15 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 16 Lord | discourse |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Thee | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lord | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 break | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 break | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 break | aux |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fast | det |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 break | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the poor man | man | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the poor man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | Glory | to Thee; Lord appos | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break in a quote | can | the poor man = man | the fast | now | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fast=Patient |
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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