Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 90
In one house folks were singing so finely that Christ stayed to listen, whilst St. Peter went on.
Who acts: Christ, Peter · What happens: sing, stay, listen, go on · To what, where: one house folks
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 (Christ, Peter), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 folks | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 folks | nummod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 folks | compound |
| 4 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 singing | obl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 singing | aux |
| 6 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 finely | advmod |
| 8 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 6 singing | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stayed | mark |
| 10 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stayed | nsubj |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 singing | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 listen | mark |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stayed | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 16 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Peter | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 listen | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 singing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | one house folks | finely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in folk=Location | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | Christ | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | Christ not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go on | past | Peter St. | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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