Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 56
One day they were still on their road, going on a long, long road, and a wolf met them and said: “Lord, I am feeling hungry.”
Who acts: Christ, road, wolf · What happens: be, go, meet, say, feel · To what, where: road, long long road, Christ · 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 (Christ, road, wolf), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 road | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 road | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 road | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 road | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 road | nmod:poss |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 road | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 road | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 road | amod |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 met | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 met | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wolf | det |
| 20 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 met | nsubj |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 road | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 met | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 met | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 feeling | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 feeling | punct |
| 27 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 feeling | vocative |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Lord | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 feeling | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 feeling | aux |
| 31 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | ccomp |
| 32 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feeling | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 feeling | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Christ | Christ's road | still; day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | Christ's road not said here | a long long road | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | a wolf | Christ | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | feel in a quote | present · progressive | a wolf = wolf | Lord vocative; hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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