Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 112
But near by there was a thick forest, and there a knight lived who was blind but very strong.
Who acts: knight · What happens: be
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 (knight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 was | cc |
| 2 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lived | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 lived | expl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 blind | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blind | cop |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lived | parataxis |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 strong | cc |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 strong | advmod |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blind | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a knight | there | live property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | who nsubj; blind property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules |
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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