Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 142
And then, as plain as plain could be, (Binnorie, oh Binnorie), There sits my sister wha drowned me!
Who acts: sister wha · What happens: be, sit, drown · To what, where: me
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 (sister wha), 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 | _ | 5 plain | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 plain | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plain | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 plain | case |
| 5 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Binnorie | case |
| 7 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Binnorie | amod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 Binnorie | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Binnorie | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Binnorie | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Binnorie | punct |
| 12 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plain | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Binnorie | punct |
| 14 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 Binnorie | discourse |
| 15 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Binnorie | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Binnorie | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sits | punct |
| 18 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 sits | expl |
| 19 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plain | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wha | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wha | compound |
| 22 | wha | wha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drowned | nsubj |
| 23 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sits | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 drowned | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 plain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | as plain Binnorie; Binnorie appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drown | past | my sister wha | me | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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