Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 5
And all the good folks asked who had been the slayers, who had been the murderers.
Who acts: good folks, slayers · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: slayers, murderers
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 (good folks, slayers), 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 | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 folks | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 folks | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 folks | amod |
| 5 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 slayers | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slayers | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 slayers | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 slayers | det |
| 11 | slayers | slayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 murderers | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 murderers | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 murderers | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 murderers | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 murderers | det |
| 17 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slayers | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | all good folks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | the slayers and the murderers | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | the slayers and the murderers | the murderers | 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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