Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 42
_ Father in a general sense, meaning anybody older.
Who acts: general sense · What happens: mean · To what, where: anybody, general sense
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 (general sense), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | compound |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sense | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sense | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sense | det |
| 5 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sense | amod |
| 6 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meaning | punct |
| 8 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sense | acl |
| 9 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 meaning | obj |
| 10 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 anybody | amod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | a general sense _ Father not said here | anybody | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Topic |
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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