Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 112
One day he thought he would like to journey to foreign parts and see strange lands, view the folks of the world, and show himself.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: think, like, see, view, show · To what, where: journey, strange lands, folks, Crow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow), 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 | 4 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 journey | mark |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 parts | case |
| 11 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 parts | amod |
| 12 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 journey | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | conj |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lands | amod |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 view | punct |
| 18 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 folks | det |
| 20 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 view | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 folks | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 show | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 show | cc |
| 26 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 view | advcl |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 show | iobj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Crow | day | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | would | Crow | journey | to foreign parts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot journey=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Crow not said here | strange lands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | view | infinitive | Crow not said here | the folks of the world | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | show | infinitive | Crow not said here | Crow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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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