Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 8
When Petrúsha saw that his father had vanished utterly, he became melancholy, and wept, had a Requiem Mass sung for his soul, and began to administer the property.
Who acts: Petrúsha, father · What happens: see, vanish, become, weep, have, sing · To what, where: melancholy, Requiem Mass, property · 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 (Petrúsha, father), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Petrúsha | Petrúsha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 vanished | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vanished | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vanished | aux |
| 8 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 8 vanished | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wept | cc |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wept | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Mass | det |
| 20 | Requiem | requiem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Mass | compound |
| 21 | Mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Mass | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 soul | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 soul | nmod:poss |
| 25 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sung | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 began | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 began | cc |
| 28 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 administer | mark |
| 30 | administer | administer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 began | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 property | det |
| 32 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 administer | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Petrúsha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | vanish | past · perfect | Petrúsha's father | utterly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Petrúsha | melancholy | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | weep | past | Petrúsha not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Petrúsha not said here | a Requiem Mass | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | participle | a Requiem Mass not said here | for Petrúsha's soul | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for soul=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | begin | past | Petrúsha not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | administer | to-infinitive | Petrúsha not said here | the property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent property=Theme |
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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