Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 28
Soon a boy was born who grew not by days but by hours; and at the end of a week he could already talk.
Who acts: boy · What happens: bear, not grow, talk · To what, where: boy, end
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 (boy), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 born | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 grew | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hours | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hours | case |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 days | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 talk | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 talk | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 talk | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 week | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 week | det |
| 21 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 talk | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 talk | aux |
| 24 | already | already | ADV | _ | 25 talk | advmod |
| 25 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 born | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a boy | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not grow | past | day | who nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk | could | boy | at the end of a week | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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