Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 4
She hangs her head down over me and sucks my white breast.”
Who acts: Bába · What happens: hang down, suck · To what, where: head, white breast
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hangs | nsubj |
| 2 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hangs | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 hangs | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hangs | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sucks | cc |
| 9 | sucks | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hangs | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breast | nmod:poss |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breast | amod |
| 12 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sucks | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sucks | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sucks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang down | present | Bába | Bába's head | over me; down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme over i=Destination | |||
| 2 | suck | present | Bába not said here | my white breast | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breast=Source |
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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