Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 4
This particular story portrays some of the personifications and allegorizings of the common acts of life; all of which have their appropriate blessing or grace.
Who acts: particular story, all, life, acts · What happens: portray, have, act, bless · To what, where: some, appropriate blessing
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 (particular story, all, life, acts), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 2 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 portrays | nsubj |
| 4 | portrays | portray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 portrays | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 personifications | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 personifications | det |
| 8 | personifications | personification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 some | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 allegorizings | cc |
| 10 | allegorizings | allegorizing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 personifications | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 acts | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 acts | det |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 acts | amod |
| 14 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 allegorizings | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 acts | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 have | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 portrays | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 23 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blessing | amod |
| 24 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 grace | cc |
| 26 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blessing | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 portrays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | portray | present | this particular story | some of the personifications and allegorizings of the common acts of life | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | all | acts's appropriate blessing or grace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | act | life | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | bless | acts = act | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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