Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 42
Then the sisters bowed down to her feet, and said, “We are not worthy!”
Who acts: sisters, We · What happens: bow down, say, not be · 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 (sisters, We), 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 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worthy | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 worthy | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 worthy | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 worthy | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 worthy | advmod |
| 17 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 worthy | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow down | past | the sisters | then | to mother's feet; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to foot=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the sisters not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | We | worthy property | tree rules |
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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