Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 13
“But is not it very sinful of you, going to church to pray to God, and then invoking the Unholy Spirit?
Who acts: Gossip · What happens: not be, go, pray, invoke · To what, where: church, God, Unholy Spirit
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gossip), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sinful | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sinful | cc |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sinful | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sinful | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sinful | nsubj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sinful | advmod |
| 7 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 sinful | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sinful | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 church | mark |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pray | mark |
| 15 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pray | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 invoking | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 invoking | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 invoking | advmod |
| 21 | invoking | invoke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sinful | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Spirit | det |
| 23 | Unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Spirit | amod |
| 24 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 invoking | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sinful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Gossip | of you; sinful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | gerund | Gossip not said here | church | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | to-infinitive | Gossip not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | invoke in a quote | gerund | Gossip not said here | the Unholy Spirit | then | tree rules |
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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