Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 83
These words made the merchant and his wife very angry, so they decided to get rid of their child; they built a little boat, and in the dark of night, put the sleeping boy into it and let it sail into the open sea.
Who acts: words, merchant, boat · What happens: make, decide, get, build, put, let · To what, where: merchant, little boat, dark, sleeping boy, boat, open sea
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 (words, merchant, boat), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wife | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 merchant | conj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 angry | advmod |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wife | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 decided | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 decided | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 decided | nsubj |
| 14 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 decided | xcomp |
| 17 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 child | nmod:poss |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rid | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 built | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 built | nsubj |
| 23 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boat | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boat | amod |
| 26 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 built | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dark | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dark | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 dark | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dark | det |
| 31 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 built | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 night | case |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dark | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 built | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 boy | det |
| 37 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 boy | compound |
| 38 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 let | cc |
| 42 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 put | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 let | obj |
| 44 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 let | xcomp |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 sea | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sea | det |
| 47 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 sea | amod |
| 48 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sail | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this words | the merchant and word's wife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset merchant=Product | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | merchant | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | merchant not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | build | past | merchant | a little boat | the dark of night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product | |||
| 5 | put | infinitive | merchant not said here | the sleeping boy | dark | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Goal | |||
| 6 | let | infinitive | merchant not said here | boat | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sail | infinitive | boat not said here | the open sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into sea=Trajectory |
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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