Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 130
She, they say, is indescribably kind towards the poor men and cripples, and gives them alms with her own hands.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: say, be, give · To what, where: alms, merchant · 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 (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 7 | indescribably | indescribably | ADV | _ | 8 kind | advmod |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kind | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cripples | cc |
| 14 | cripples | cripple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 men | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gives | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gives | cc |
| 17 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gives | iobj |
| 19 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gives | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hands | amod |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 alms | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | daughter | merchant nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | towards the poor men and cripples; indescribably, kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | present | alms | merchant | with daughter's own hands | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient alm=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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