Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 170
There is the _great corner_, where the Ikon stands, the _upper corner_ near the door, and the _stove corner_ opposite to the doors of the stove.
Who acts: _ great corner, Ikon, _ · What happens: be, stand, stove · To what, where: upper corner, corner
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 (_ great corner, Ikon, _), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 corner | amod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 corner | amod |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 corner | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stands | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 stands | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ikon | det |
| 11 | Ikon | Ikon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | nsubj |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 corner | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 corner | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 corner | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 corner | punct |
| 16 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 corner | amod |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 corner | punct |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 corner | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stove | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stove | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 _ | det |
| 25 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stove | nsubj |
| 26 | stove | stove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 27 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stove | obj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 opposite | punct |
| 29 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stove | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 doors | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 doors | det |
| 32 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 opposite | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 stove | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stove | det |
| 35 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 doors | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the _ great corner | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | the Ikon | the upper corner near the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stove | present | the _ | corner | opposite obj | 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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