Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 38
“This water is right,” said Katomá, so the blind man washed his eyes and could at once see.
Who acts: water, Katomá, blind man · What happens: be, say, wash, see · To what, where: eyes · 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 (water, Katomá, blind man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 right | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 washed | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 washed | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 washed | nsubj |
| 15 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 washed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 see | obl |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 washed | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this water | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Katomá | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wash | past | the blind man | Katomá's eyes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | could | the blind man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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