Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 158
“Well, after all, I was a guest at my brother’s name-day, and I am ashamed of going back so silently.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, go back · To what, where: guest
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 (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 | _ | 10 guest | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 guest | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Well | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 guest | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 guest | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 guest | det |
| 10 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guest | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ashamed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ashamed | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 ashamed | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ashamed | cop |
| 22 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 guest | conj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 going | mark |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 ashamed | advcl |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 going | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 silently | advmod |
| 27 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 24 going | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 guest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | man | a guest | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | man | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go back in a quote | gerund | man not said here | silently property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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