Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 50
[11] The old man lived for three days without speaking, and could not unseal his tongue.
Who acts: old man · What happens: live, speak, not unseal · To what, where: 11, tongue · 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 (old man), 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 | _ | 2 11 | punct |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 lived | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 11 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 speaking | mark |
| 12 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lived | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 unseal | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 unseal | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 unseal | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 unseal | advmod |
| 17 | unseal | unseal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unseal | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the old man | 11 | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the old man not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not unseal | could | man's tongue | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
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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