Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 52
The old man altogether forsook being drunk; and to his last day not a drop of wine passed his lips.
Who acts: old man, drop · What happens: forsake, be, pass · To what, where: lips
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, drop), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forsook | nsubj |
| 4 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 5 forsook | advmod |
| 5 | forsook | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 drunk | cop |
| 7 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 forsook | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 day | nmod:poss |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | obl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 drop | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 drop | det |
| 16 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wine | case |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drop | nmod |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forsook | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forsook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | past | the old man | altogether property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the old man not said here | drunk property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | a drop of wine | man's lips | day | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Trajectory |
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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