Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 111
Katomá all day long sat on his tree-stump without meat or drink, but could not descend, and he thought: “I must die of hunger.”
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: sit, not descend, think, die · To what, where: tree stump · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katomá), 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 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Katomá | appos |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 stump | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stump | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stump | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 10 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 meat | case |
| 12 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 descend | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 descend | cc |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 descend | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 descend | advmod |
| 19 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sat | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thought | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thought | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 die | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 die | aux |
| 28 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hunger | case |
| 30 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 die | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Katomá | Katomá's tree stump | without meat or drink; long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location | |||
| 2 | not descend | could | Katomá not said here | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Katomá | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | must | Katomá | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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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