Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 91
It was no good, what is ended cannot be mended, so new masts were built and new sails were rigged.
Who acts: storm · What happens: be, end, not mend, build, rig · To what, where: new masts, new sails
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 (storm), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 good | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ended | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ended | aux:pass |
| 8 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 good | parataxis |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 mended | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 mended | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mended | aux:pass |
| 12 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ended | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 built | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 built | advmod |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 masts | amod |
| 16 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 built | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 built | aux:pass |
| 18 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 good | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rigged | cc |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sails | amod |
| 21 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rigged | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rigged | aux:pass |
| 23 | rigged | rig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 built | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | storm | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present · passive | what nsubj:pass | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not mend | can · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | build | past · passive | new masts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 5 | rig | past · passive | new sails | 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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