Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 145
I broke off a bulrush, carved myself a pipe out of it, and the pipe began singing and speaking of itself.”
Who acts: I, pipe · What happens: break off, carve, begin, sing, speak · To what, where: bulrush, myself, pipe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, pipe), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 broke | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bulrush | det |
| 5 | bulrush | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carved | punct |
| 7 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | parataxis |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 carved | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pipe | det |
| 10 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carved | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pipe | det |
| 17 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 speaking | cc |
| 21 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 singing | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 itself | case |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 speaking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | I | a bulrush | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bulrush=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carve | past | myself | pipe | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary pipe=Product | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the pipe | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | the pipe not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | gerund | the pipe not said here | of pipe | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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