Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 124
There were no bottles, no mere pints—entire rivers flowed!
Who acts: bottles, entire rivers · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: mere pints
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 (bottles, entire rivers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 bottles | det |
| 4 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pints | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 pints | det |
| 7 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pints | amod |
| 8 | pints | pint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bottles | conj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rivers | punct |
| 10 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rivers | amod |
| 11 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flowed | nsubj |
| 12 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pints | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no bottles and no mere pints | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | entire rivers | no mere pints not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pint=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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