Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 114
In one city he stayed for a night, passed the night there, got up in the morning and said he wished to wash.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: stay, pass, get up, say, wish, wash · To what, where: one city · 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 city | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 city | nummod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stayed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 passed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stayed | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stayed | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 wash | mark |
| 25 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wished | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Crow | one city | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | |||
| 2 | pass | past | Crow not said here | there | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | get up | past | Crow not said here | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Crow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | wish | past | Crow | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wash not said to happen | to-infinitive | Crow not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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