Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 172
And gaffer said: “I dreamed last night the geese and swans were wafting our little Iván home.”
Who acts: gaffer, geese · What happens: say, dream, waft · To what, where: little Iván home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaffer, geese), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | gaffer | gaffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreamed | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dreamed | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dreamed | nsubj |
| 7 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 night | amod |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dreamed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 geese | det |
| 11 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wafting | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swans | cc |
| 13 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 geese | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wafting | aux |
| 15 | wafting | waft | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dreamed | ccomp |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 home | amod |
| 18 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 home | compound |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wafting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | gaffer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dream in a quote | past | gaffer | night | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | waft in a quote | past · progressive | the geese and swans | our little Iván home | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=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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