Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 70
Thirdly, the word became confused with _kost’_, bone, and so came to mean a skeleton or miser, and a wandering Jew.
Who acts: word · What happens: become, come, mean, wonder · To what, where: wandering Jew, skeleton
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 (word), 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 | Thirdly | thirdly | ADV | _ | 5 became | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thirdly | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 kost | case |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 kost | punct |
| 9 | kost | kost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confused | obl |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 kost | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 kost | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bone | punct |
| 13 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kost | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 mean | mark |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 skeleton | det |
| 21 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mean | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 miser | cc |
| 23 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skeleton | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Jew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Jew | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Jew | det |
| 27 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 Jew | amod |
| 28 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the word | confused, thirdly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the word not said here | a wandering Jew | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | to-infinitive | the word not said here | a skeleton or miser | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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