Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 109
(For the roads were bad, and the blue sea became stormy; the marshes surged and opened.)
Who acts: blue sea, marshes · What happens: be, become, surge, open
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue sea, marshes), 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 | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 roads | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roads | det |
| 4 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bad | obl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | cop |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sea | amod |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | conj |
| 13 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 surged | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 marshes | det |
| 16 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 surged | nsubj |
| 17 | surged | surge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 opened | cc |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 surged | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for the roads; bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | become | past | the blue sea | stormy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | surge | past | the marshes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | open | past | the marshes not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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