Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 70
And from all parts of the country the people had assembled in multitudes, countless multitudes, to see the bride and bridegroom leave the white stone palace.
Who acts: people, bride · What happens: assemble, see, leave · To what, where: parts, white stone palace · 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 (people, bride), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 assembled | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 parts | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 parts | det |
| 4 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assembled | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parts | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assembled | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assembled | aux |
| 11 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 multitudes | case |
| 13 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assembled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 multitudes | punct |
| 15 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 multitudes | amod |
| 16 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 multitudes | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 assembled | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bride | det |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leave | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bridegroom | cc |
| 23 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bride | conj |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | amod |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 palace | compound |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leave | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · perfect | the people | all parts of the country | in multitudes and countless multitudes | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | leave | present | the bride and bridegroom | the white stone palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=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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