Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 40
Then the father bowed down to earth, and he sent for the mother, and the mother blessed her.
Who acts: father, mother · What happens: bow down, send, bless · To what, where: Tsar
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, mother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mother | det |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blessed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blessed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mother | det |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blessed | nsubj |
| 19 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 blessed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow down | past | the father | then | to earth; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | father | for the mother | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bless | past | the mother | Tsar | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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