Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 47
In my old age I cannot roam to the sea, to the ocean, to the isle of Buyán, to the Black Crow.
Who acts: I · What happens: not roam · To what, where: old age
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 | _ | 4 age | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 age | nmod:poss |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 age | amod |
| 4 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roam | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 roam | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 roam | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 roam | advmod |
| 8 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roam | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ocean | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ocean | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ocean | det |
| 15 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roam | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 isle | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 isle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 isle | det |
| 19 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roam | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Buyán | case |
| 21 | Buyán | Buyán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 isle | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Crow | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Crow | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Crow | det |
| 25 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Crow | compound |
| 26 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roam | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 roam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not roam | can | I | in my old age | to the sea; to the ocean; to the isle of Buyán; to the Black Crow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
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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