Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 66
And as he journeyed on he met an old woman who said, “Hail, Russian prince, where do you wish to go?”
Who acts: son, old woman, you · What happens: journey, meet, say, wish, go · To what, where: old woman · 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 (son, old woman, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 met | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 journeyed | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 journeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 journeyed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hail | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hail | punct |
| 15 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prince | punct |
| 17 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prince | amod |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Hail | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wish | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 wish | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wish | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 wish | nsubj |
| 23 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Hail | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wish | xcomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | son | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | son | a old woman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | a old woman | Hail nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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