Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 138
So in the morning the boy got up, washed, prayed to God, said the grace for the bread and salt and the soft bed which his hostess had given him, and went into the cathedral.
Who acts: boy · What happens: get up, wash, pray, say, give, go · To what, where: God, grace, hostess, cathedral · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 got | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 washed | punct |
| 10 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 got | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prayed | punct |
| 12 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 washed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 prayed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grace | det |
| 18 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 bread | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bread | det |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 salt | cc |
| 23 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bread | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bed | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bed | det |
| 26 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bed | amod |
| 27 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bread | conj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 given | obj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hostess | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 given | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 given | aux |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bed | acl:relcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 given | iobj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 cathedral | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 cathedral | det |
| 39 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the boy | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wash | participle | the boy not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pray | participle | the boy not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the boy not said here | the grace | for the bread and salt and the soft bed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | |||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | God's hostess | God | the soft bed obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | go | past | the boy not said here | the cathedral | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cathedral=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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