Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 110
“The one who was kneading her dough and had made it without saying the proper blessing; so I ran up and squatted in it.
Who acts: one, Tsarévna · What happens: knead, make, say, run up, squat · To what, where: dough, proper blessing, 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: who acts (one, Tsarévna), 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 | _ | 6 kneading | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kneading | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 kneading | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kneading | aux |
| 6 | kneading | knead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dough | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kneading | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 kneading | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 saying | mark |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blessing | det |
| 16 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blessing | amod |
| 17 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saying | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 ran | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kneading | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 ran | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 squatted | cc |
| 24 | squatted | squat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ran | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 squatted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kneading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knead in a quote | past · progressive | the one | woman's dough | who nsubj | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | past · perfect | the one not said here | dough | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | the one not said here | the proper blessing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | run up in a quote | past | Tsarévna | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | squat in a quote | participle | Tsarévna not said here | blessing | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
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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