Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 52
I was at the wedding: I drank mead and beer.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, drink · To what, where: wedding, mead
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wedding | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wedding | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 wedding | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 drank | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 drank | nsubj |
| 8 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wedding | conj |
| 9 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drank | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beer | cc |
| 11 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mead | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wedding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | the wedding | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | I | mead and beer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient |
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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