Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 150
And at table there were many guests, and the master of the house entertained them all magnificently.
Who acts: many guests, master · What happens: be, entertain · To what, where: table, Needs
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 (many guests, master), 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 | _ | 5 were | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 table | case |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 were | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guests | amod |
| 7 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entertained | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entertained | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 master | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entertained | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 master | nmod |
| 15 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 were | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entertained | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 15 entertained | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many guests | table; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | ||||
| 2 | entertain | past | the master of the house | Needs = need | magnificently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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