Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 130
He could not lift it however, for it was rooted in the earth.
Who acts: hold · What happens: not lift, root · To what, where: wallet, earth
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 (hold), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lift | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lift | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lift | advmod |
| 4 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lift | obj |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 lift | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rooted | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 rooted | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rooted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rooted | aux:pass |
| 11 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lift | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rooted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lift | could | hold | wallet | however property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | root | past · passive | wallet | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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