Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 133
“I thank you for it,” said the poor man, and bowed down, and was going home.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: thank, say, bow down, go · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. 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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bowed | cc |
| 15 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 bowed | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 going | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 going | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | the poor man = man | you | for reward | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poor man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bow down | participle | the poor man not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | the poor man not said here | home property | 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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