Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 46
And her sisters wept from sheer emotion, as the rivers flow, and would not rise from the ground.
Who acts: sisters, rivers · What happens: weep, flow, not rise · To what, where: sheer emotion, ground
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, rivers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wept | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 emotion | case |
| 6 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 emotion | amod |
| 7 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flow | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 flow | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rivers | det |
| 11 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flow | nsubj |
| 12 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wept | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rise | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rise | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 rise | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 rise | advmod |
| 17 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 flow | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rise | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | mother's sisters | sheer emotion | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flow | present | the rivers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not rise | would | the rivers not said here | the ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location |
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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