Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 140
For they killed me, the poor one, and for a silver saucer have severed me from light, all for my enchanted apple.”
Who acts: sisters, poor one · What happens: kill, sever, enchant · To what, where: me, light, poor one
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 (sisters, poor one), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 killed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 severed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 severed | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 saucer | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 saucer | det |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saucer | compound |
| 14 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 severed | obl |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 severed | aux |
| 16 | severed | sever | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 severed | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 severed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 all | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 one | appos |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 apple | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 apple | nmod:poss |
| 24 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 apple | amod |
| 25 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 all | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | sisters = sister | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sever | present · perfect | the poor one not said here | me | light | for a silver saucer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme from light=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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