Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 26
So they fared into the deepest part of the slumberous forest, and she there showed them a well and said: “This is the healing water that renders life.”
Who acts: hairs, Bába, This, healing water · What happens: fare, show, say, be, render · To what, where: deepest part, hairs, healing water, life · 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 (hairs, Bába, This, healing water), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fared | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fared | nsubj |
| 3 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fared | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 10 | slumberous | slumberous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forest | amod |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 showed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 showed | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | nsubj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 showed | advmod |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fared | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 well | det |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 showed | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 showed | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 water | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 water | punct |
| 24 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 water | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 water | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 27 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 water | compound |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 renders | nsubj |
| 30 | renders | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 water | acl:relcl |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 renders | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fared | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | past | hairs = hair | the deepest part of the slumberous forest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Bába | hairs = hair | there | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bába not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | This | the healing water | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | render in a quote | present | the healing water | life | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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