Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 189
There are obvious gaps I have not ventured to fill up.
Who acts: obvious gaps, I · What happens: be, not venture, fill up · To what, where: obvious gaps
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (obvious gaps, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gaps | amod |
| 4 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ventured | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ventured | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ventured | advmod |
| 8 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gaps | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fill | mark |
| 10 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ventured | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 fill | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | obvious gaps | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not venture | present · perfect | I | obvious gaps not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill up | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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