Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 59
And he saw her going up and down, and said: “Mare, the Lord has bidden me eat you!”
Who acts: road, mare, Lord · What happens: see, go up, say, bid, eat · To what, where: mare, road, you · 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 (road, mare, Lord), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 down | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 up | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Mare | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Mare | punct |
| 14 | Mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Mare | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lord | det |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bidden | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bidden | aux |
| 19 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bidden | obj |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bidden | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | road | mare | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | mare not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | road not said here | Mare | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bid in a quote | present · perfect | the Lord | road | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | infinitive | the Lord not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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