Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 44
He who bears in mind an ill bygone has lost his sight.”
Who acts: imperial · What happens: lose, sight · To what, where: imperial
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 (imperial), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mind | case |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bears | nmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bygone | det |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bygone | amod |
| 8 | bygone | bygone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sight | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect · passive | imperial | who nsubj; bears in mind nsubj:pass; a ill bygone nsubj:pass; imperial's sight obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sight | imperial | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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