Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 121
In the story of St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker, I have taken the story as I found it, and have not attempted to fill up the obvious gaps.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, find, not attempt, not fill up · To what, where: story, worker, obvious gaps
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 (I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nicholas | case |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Worker | det |
| 8 | Wonder | Wonder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Worker | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Worker | punct |
| 10 | Worker | Worker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Nicholas | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 found | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 attempted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 attempted | cc |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 attempted | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 attempted | advmod |
| 25 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 found | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fill | mark |
| 27 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 attempted | xcomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 fill | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gaps | det |
| 30 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gaps | amod |
| 31 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fill | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | I | the story | the story of Nicholas St. | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent story=Value in story=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | I | worker | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not attempt | present · perfect | I not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not fill up | to-infinitive | I not said here | the obvious gaps | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient |
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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