Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 90
Then the old woman met him on his way and asked, “Why are you weeping, Alyósha Popóvich?”
Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: meet, ask, weep · To what, where: Alyósha, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman, you), 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 | 5 met | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weeping | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 weeping | punct |
| 14 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 weeping | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 weeping | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 weeping | nsubj |
| 17 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Alyósha | punct |
| 19 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 weeping | obj |
| 20 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Alyósha | flat |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 Alyósha | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the old woman | Alyósha | Alyósha's way | then | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old woman not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | you | Alyósha | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent alyósha=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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