Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 130
_ For the punishment of the old man who grumbled at the good things of earth there is a surprisingly close analogy in Dante’s _Inferno_, canto vii.
Who acts: old man, earth · What happens: grumble, be, punish · To what, where: close analogy, good things, old man
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, earth), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 punishment | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 punishment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 punishment | det |
| 4 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 punishment | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grumbled | nsubj |
| 10 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 things | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grumbled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 things | nmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 earth | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 analogy | det |
| 20 | surprisingly | surprisingly | ADV | _ | 21 close | advmod |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 analogy | amod |
| 22 | analogy | analogy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grumbled | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Dante | case |
| 24 | Dante | Dante | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 analogy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Dante | case |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Inferno | punct |
| 27 | Inferno | Inferno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grumbled | parataxis |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Inferno | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 vii | punct |
| 30 | canto | canto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 vii | compound |
| 31 | vii | vii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 punishment | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 punishment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grumble speech: other | past | the old man | Dante's close analogy | the good things of earth | Inferno parataxis | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | be | present | earth not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | punish | the old man | nom punishment «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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