Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 70
The knight who was once blind stayed by them.
Who acts: knight · What happens: be, stay
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 (knight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | cop |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 blind | advmod |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 blind | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stayed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the knight | who nsubj; blind, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | participle | the knight not said here | by knights = knight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by they=Location |
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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