Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 98
“I could not make out why you stopped to listen to folk-songs and passed by the house where hymns were being sung.”
Who acts: Saviour, you · What happens: not make out, stop, listen, pass, sing · To what, where: hymns
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 (Saviour, you), 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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 make | compound:prt |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 stopped | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 listen | mark |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stopped | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 songs | case |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 songs | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 folk | punct |
| 15 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 listen | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stopped | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 sung | advmod |
| 22 | hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sung | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sung | aux:pass |
| 25 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 house | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make out in a quote | could | the Saviour = saviour | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | past | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | to folk songs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass in a quote | participle | you not said here | by the house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by house=Location | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express in a quote | past · passive | hymns | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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