Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 141
So the merchant’s daughter remained with them, and the two knights honoured and loved her as though she were their own sister.
Who acts: daughter, two knights · What happens: remain, honour, love, be · To what, where: daughter, own sister
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, two knights), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 remained | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 remained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 honoured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 honoured | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knights | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 knights | nummod |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 honoured | nsubj |
| 14 | honoured | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remained | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 loved | cc |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 honoured | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 loved | advmod |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 sister | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sister | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sister | cop |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sister | amod |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loved | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the merchant's daughter | with merchant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | honour | past | the two knights | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | love | past | the two knights not said here | daughter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | daughter | merchant's own sister | merchant nmod:poss | 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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