Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 153
When the meal was over the guests rose from table and bowed their thanks to the master and mistress, and the poor man also stood up from his bench and bowed down deep before his brother; and the guests went home drunken and merry, noisily singing songs.
Who acts: meal, poor man, guests · What happens: be, rise, bow, stand up, bow down, go · To what, where: table, thanks, master, bench, songs
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 (meal, poor man, guests), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meal | det |
| 3 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 guests | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 guests | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guests | det |
| 7 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meal | nmod |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bowed | cc |
| 12 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bowed | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 master | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 master | det |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thanks | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mistress | cc |
| 19 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 master | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stood | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stood | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 stood | advmod |
| 26 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 stood | compound:prt |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 bench | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bench | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bowed | cc |
| 32 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stood | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADV | _ | 32 bowed | advmod |
| 34 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 32 bowed | advmod |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 brother | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bowed | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 went | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 guests | det |
| 41 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 43 | home | home | ADV | _ | 42 went | advmod |
| 44 | drunken | drunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 went | xcomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 merry | cc |
| 46 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 drunken | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 singing | punct |
| 48 | noisily | noisily | ADV | _ | 49 singing | advmod |
| 49 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 went | advcl |
| 50 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 singing | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | over the guests | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | the meal | table | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bow | past | the meal not said here | brothers's thanks | the master and mistress | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic to master=Recipient | |||
| 4 | stand up | past | the poor man | guest's bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bow down | past | the poor man not said here | before guest's brother | deep, down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before brother=Location | |||
| 6 | go | past | the guests | drunken, home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | gerund | the guests not said here | songs | noisily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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