Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 101
Once a woman was kneading bread, but had forgotten to say the blessing.
What happens: knead, forget, not say · To what, where: bread, blessing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 woman | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kneading | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kneading | aux |
| 5 | kneading | knead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kneading | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgotten | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgotten | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgotten | aux |
| 10 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 kneading | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forgotten | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blessing | det |
| 14 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kneading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knead | past · progressive | bread | once a woman | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bread=Material | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the blessing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=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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