Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 95
Then the man, after hearing this, could not help leaping up from the bench and whipping his wife.
Who acts: man · What happens: hear, not help, leap up, whip · To what, where: this, bench, wife
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 man | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearing | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 hearing | mark |
| 6 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 help | advmod |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 help | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 leaping | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 bench | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bench | det |
| 16 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaping | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whipping | cc |
| 18 | whipping | whip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 leaping | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whipping | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the man not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | the man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leap up not said to happen | gerund | the man not said here | the bench | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bench=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | whip | gerund | the man not said here | man's wife | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wife=Material |
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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