Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 139
When he got there, if you had been there three years you could not have counted all those people.
Who acts: hostess, you · What happens: get, be, not count · To what, where: people
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 (hostess, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 there | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 there | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | parataxis |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 there | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 counted | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 counted | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 counted | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 counted | aux |
| 17 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 got | parataxis |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 people | det:predet |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 counted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | hostess | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | year | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not count | could · perfect | you | all people | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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