Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 37
But the envious sisters rubbed onions on their eyes and made as though they were weeping: “Do not go away, sister; stay until to-morrow.”
Who acts: envious sisters, sisters · What happens: rub, make, weep, not go away, stay · To what, where: onions, eyes, sister
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (envious sisters, sisters), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 rubbed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 3 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sisters | amod |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rubbed | nsubj |
| 5 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rubbed | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rubbed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rubbed | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 weeping | advmod |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 weeping | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 weeping | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 weeping | aux |
| 16 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 19 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 go | advmod |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 weeping | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sister | punct |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
| 26 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rubbed | conj |
| 27 | until | until | ADP | _ | 30 morrow | case |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 morrow | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 to | punct |
| 30 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stay | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | the envious sisters | onions | sisters's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent onion=Theme on eye=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | participle | the envious sisters not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | weep | past · progressive | sisters = sister | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not go away in a quote | infinitive · do-support | sisters = sister not said here | sister | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | stay in a quote | infinitive | the envious sisters not said here | until morrow | vn exist-47.1 «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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