Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 164
The top of the stove is used for a sleeping bench (_poláty_) for the old folk or the honoured guest.
What happens: use, honour · To what, where: top
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: 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 | 2 top | det |
| 2 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stove | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stove | det |
| 5 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 top | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 bench | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bench | det |
| 10 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bench | amod |
| 11 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 poláty | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 poláty | punct |
| 14 | poláty | poláty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bench | appos |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 poláty | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 poláty | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 folk | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 folk | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 folk | amod |
| 20 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 guest | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 guest | det |
| 23 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 guest | amod |
| 24 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 folk | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | the top of the stove | for a sleeping bench; for the old folk or the honoured guest | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for bench=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | honour | participle | tree rules |
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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