Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 168
In villages there is a general bath-house to which the peasants go once a week.
Who acts: general bath house, peasants · What happens: be, go · To what, where: villages, general bath house
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 (general bath house, peasants), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 villages | case |
| 2 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 is | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 6 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 7 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bath | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 go | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasants | det |
| 13 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 once | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a general bath house | villages; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | present | the peasants | a general bath house | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_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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