Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 147
The old hag whom Danílo meets on the way is elsewhere called the Wise Woman of Kíev, an old witch with the ugly qualities generally assigned.
Who acts: Danílo · What happens: meet, call, assign · To what, where: old hag, way, ugly qualities · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Danílo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hag | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hag | amod |
| 3 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 meets | obj |
| 5 | Danílo | Danílo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 meets | nsubj |
| 6 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hag | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meets | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Woman | det |
| 14 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Woman | amod |
| 15 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kíev | case |
| 17 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Woman | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 witch | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 witch | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 witch | amod |
| 21 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Woman | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 qualities | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 qualities | det |
| 24 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 qualities | amod |
| 25 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 witch | nmod |
| 26 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 27 assigned | advmod |
| 27 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 qualities | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Danílo | the old hag | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the old hag | the Wise Woman of Kíev and a old witch with the ugly qualities xcomp; elsewhere property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | assign | participle | the ugly qualities not said here | generally property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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