Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 61
Sorrow will rend my brother’s body asunder, so that he cannot then brag of his riches in front of me.”
Who acts: Sorrow · What happens: rend, not brag · To what, where: body asunder, front
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 (Sorrow), 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 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rend | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rend | aux |
| 3 | rend | rend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asunder | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 brother | case |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asunder | compound |
| 8 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rend | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brag | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 brag | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brag | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 brag | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 brag | advmod |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 brag | advmod |
| 16 | brag | brag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rend | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 riches | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 riches | nmod:poss |
| 19 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brag | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rend | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 front | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rend | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rend | future | Sorrow | my brother's body asunder | front of me | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient | |||
| 2 | not brag speech: other | can | Sorrow | then | of Sorrow's riches | tree rules |
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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