Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 147
My poor little self they slew, they withdrew from the white world, all for the sake of my silver vessel and crystal apple.”
Who acts: poor little self, words · What happens: slay, withdraw · To what, where: white world
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 (poor little self, words), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 self | nmod:poss |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 self | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 self | amod |
| 4 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slew | nsubj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 slew | nsubj |
| 6 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 withdrew | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 withdrew | nsubj |
| 9 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slew | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 world | amod |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 withdrew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 world | appos |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sake | det |
| 18 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 all | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 vessel | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 21 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vessel | amod |
| 22 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sake | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 apple | cc |
| 24 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 apple | amod |
| 25 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sake | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slew | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | My poor little self | words = word nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | withdraw | past | words = word | the white world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location |
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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