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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 4

The father clasped his hands, groaned as he recognised his unfortunate daughter, saw her lying there slain, not knowing by whom she had been buried.

Who acts: father, shepherd · What happens: clasp, groan, recognise, see, lie, not know · To what, where: hands, unfortunate daughter, shepherd, slain

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 (father, shepherd), 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

detnsubjnmod:possobjpunctparataxismarknsubjadvclnmod:possamodobjpunctconjobjxcompadvmodobjpunctadvmodadvclcaseoblnsubj:passauxaux:passacl:relclpunctrootTheDETfatherNOUNclaspedVERBhisPRONhandsNOUN,PUNCTgroanedVERBasSCONJhePRONrecognisedVERBhisPRONunfortunateADJdaughterNOUN,PUNCTsawVERBherPRONlyingVERBthereADVslainNOUN,PUNCTnotPARTknowingVERBbyADPwhomPRONshePRONhadAUXbeenAUXburiedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 fatherdet
2fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing3 claspednsubj
3claspedclaspVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 handsnmod:poss
5handshandNOUNNumber=Plur3 claspedobj
6,,PUNCT_7 groanedpunct
7groanedgroanVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 claspedparataxis
8asasSCONJ_10 recognisedmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 recognisednsubj
10recognisedrecogniseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 groanedadvcl
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 daughternmod:poss
12unfortunateunfortunateADJDegree=Pos13 daughteramod
13daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing10 recognisedobj
14,,PUNCT_15 sawpunct
15sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 claspedconj
16hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 sawobj
17lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger15 sawxcomp
18therethereADVPronType=Dem17 lyingadvmod
19slainslainNOUNNumber=Sing17 lyingobj
20,,PUNCT_22 knowingpunct
21notnotPARTPolarity=Neg22 knowingadvmod
22knowingknowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 lyingadvcl
23bybyADP_24 whomcase
24whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel22 knowingobl
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 buriednsubj:pass
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 buriedaux
27beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 buriedaux:pass
28buriedburyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 whomacl:relcl
29..PUNCT_3 claspedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1clasppastthe fatherfather's handsvn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2groanparticiplevn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3recognisepastfatherfather's unfortunate daughtervn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
4seepastthe father not said hereshepherdtree rules
5liegerundshepherd not said hereslaintherevn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slain=Theme
6not knowgerundshepherd not said herewhom oblvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7burypast · perfect · passiveshepherdvn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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