Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 158
Outside the _dvor_ against the fence there is a bench (_lávka_), on which the family sits in the summer.
Who acts: bench, family · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: dvor
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 (bench, family), 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 | Outside | outside | ADP | _ | 4 dvor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dvor | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 dvor | punct |
| 4 | dvor | dvor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | obl |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 dvor | punct |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 fence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fence | det |
| 8 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dvor | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bench | det |
| 12 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 lávka | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 lávka | punct |
| 15 | lávka | lávka | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 bench | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 lávka | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 lávka | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sits | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sits | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 family | det |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sits | nsubj |
| 23 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 is | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 summer | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 summer | det |
| 26 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sits | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a bench | the dvor against the fence; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside dvor=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the family | summer | which obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
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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