Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 127
And they sat long at the table, waited for her long, until it was time to go home.
Who acts: rivers, table · What happens: sit, wait, be, go · To what, where: table
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 (rivers, table), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 waited | punct |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 long | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 long | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 waited | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 14 | until | until | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | rivers = river | the table | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | |||
| 2 | wait | past | rivers = river not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | table | until time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | rivers = river not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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