Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 58
There is not a crust of bread in his house, and he is still chattering about beer.”
Who acts: crust · What happens: not be, chatter
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 (crust), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crust | det |
| 5 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crust | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crust | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chattering | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chattering | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 chattering | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 chattering | aux |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 chattering | advmod |
| 16 | chattering | chatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 is | parataxis |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 beer | case |
| 18 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chattering | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 chattering | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | a crust of bread in crust's house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chatter | present · progressive | crust | still | about beer | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about beer=Topic |
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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