Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 142
Sometimes they went a-hunting, and then the sister remained alone in the house looking after the domestic service, cooking the food and doing the washing.
Who acts: merchant, sister · What happens: go, remain, look, cook, do · To what, where: hunting, house, food, washing
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 (merchant, sister), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hunting | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 a | punct |
| 6 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remained | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 remained | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 remained | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | obl |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 remained | advcl |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 service | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 service | det |
| 20 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 service | amod |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cooking | punct |
| 23 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 looking | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 food | det |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cooking | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 doing | cc |
| 27 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 looking | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 washing | det |
| 29 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 doing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | merchant | a hunting | sometimes property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | past | the sister | the house | then | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||
| 3 | look | gerund | the sister not said here | after the domestic service | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cook | gerund | the sister not said here | the food | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do | gerund | the sister not said here | the washing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=Eventuality |
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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