Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 48
Then they went back to the merchant’s house, were betrothed, lived long, and lived for good and happy things.
Who acts: dishes · What happens: go back, betroth, live
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 (dishes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 merchant | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 betrothed | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 12 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lived | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lived | cc |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 happy | cc |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 good | conj |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lived | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | dishes = dish | then | to the merchant's house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | betroth | past · passive | dishes = dish not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» | |||||
| 3 | live | past | dishes = dish not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | past | dishes = dish not said here | for good things | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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