Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 3
Up to very recent times, patriarchal usages obtained through Russia, and married sons resided in the father’s house.
What happens: obtain, reside · To what, where: patriarchal usages, Russia, married sons, house, recent times
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: 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 5 times | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 Up | fixed |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 recent | advmod |
| 4 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 usages | punct |
| 7 | patriarchal | patriarchal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 usages | amod |
| 8 | usages | usage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 times | conj |
| 9 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 usages | acl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 Russia | case |
| 11 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 obtained | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sons | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sons | cc |
| 14 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sons | amod |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 times | conj |
| 16 | resided | reside | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sons | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resided | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 times | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | participle | patriarchal usages not said here | Russia | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | reside | participle | married sons not said here | the father's house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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