Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 115
_ This picture of Sorrow as an ancient hag who pursues mankind throughout life is peculiarly Russian and is the theme of very many beautiful ballads.
Who acts: ancient hag, life · What happens: pursue, be · To what, where: mankind, theme, picture
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient hag, life), 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 | _ | 3 picture | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 picture | det |
| 3 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sorrow | case |
| 5 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picture | nmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 hag | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hag | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hag | amod |
| 9 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picture | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 pursues | nsubj |
| 11 | pursues | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hag | acl:relcl |
| 12 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pursues | obj |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 17 Russian | mark |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Russian | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Russian | cop |
| 16 | peculiarly | peculiarly | ADV | _ | 17 Russian | advmod |
| 17 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pursues | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 theme | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 theme | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 theme | det |
| 21 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pursues | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ballads | case |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ballads | amod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ballads | amod |
| 26 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 theme | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | present | a ancient hag | mankind | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mankind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | life | peculiarly, russian property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a ancient hag not said here | the theme | of many beautiful ballads | tree rules |
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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