Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 33
But she still prayed for mercy as before, and swore a great oath she would not deceive any more.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: pray, swear, not deceive · To what, where: great oath
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 (Bába), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 prayed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 prayed | advmod |
| 4 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 mercy | case |
| 6 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prayed | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 prayed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swore | cc |
| 11 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prayed | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 oath | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oath | amod |
| 14 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swore | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 deceive | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 deceive | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 deceive | advmod |
| 18 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 oath | acl:relcl |
| 19 | any | any | ADV | _ | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 deceive | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Bába | still | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme | |||
| 2 | swear | past | a great oath | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not deceive | would | Bába | a great oath not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Patient |
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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